WP34s Programming Cable

[dewster]

(01-29-2014 04:30 PM)StephenR0 Wrote:  Actually, the flashing procedure is pretty risk free. If it messes up in the middle, just clear it out and start over. You do have to erase it again to get it ready to flash, but then everything should work. The hardest part is that nothing happens on the screen. You just have to follow the erase procedure and trust that it works.

Yes, that was my experience. After installing the crystal, I went to reflash mine with the real-time clock load. I picked the "calc_xtal_full.bin" file which apparently takes longer to "do its thing" after the upload. I thought something went wrong so I reset it and reflashed it again with no apparent harm done. Gave it a bit longer the second time before jumping the gun and it was fine. But, yeah, not a lot of feedback on the screen.

I won't say you can't go wrong with the cable I pointed to, but it worked great for me twice. And for $4 (total, delivered!) farting around with other methods seems like too much effort.

(And I can use the cable to power & talk to my Hive processor on an Altera FPGA demo board - design document.)