Hello everyone...I finally decided to start looking into microcontrollers...and ended up with more questions than before I started. Idealy I want to create USB devices for simple input/output features as a first project. Searching around came up with Cypress's usb microcontrollers (CY7C63001-PC specifically)
My question is this chip rewritable and how can I (cheaply ) program it? Cypress has a programmer on their site for $99, which I guess is a decent deal, but it seems that it'd be useless if I switched to a different manufacturer's PICs...not to mention that the software on the included page just shows "The system cannot execute the specified program." when ran from 2k (I don't have a win9x box readily available.)
So yeah....I'm open to any suggestions on choosing a different PIC, programmer, etc....thanks!
My question is this chip rewritable and how can I (cheaply ) program it? Cypress has a programmer on their site for $99, which I guess is a decent deal, but it seems that it'd be useless if I switched to a different manufacturer's PICs...not to mention that the software on the included page just shows "The system cannot execute the specified program." when ran from 2k (I don't have a win9x box readily available.)
So yeah....I'm open to any suggestions on choosing a different PIC, programmer, etc....thanks!