Texas Instruments TMS370 - Manual (Page 18)

Gang Programmer Overview and Description
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Introduction and Installation
1.2 Gang Programmer Overview and Description
The TMS370 Gang Programmer is an interactive, menu-driven system that
provides programming support for on-chip EEPROM or EPROM of TMS370
microcontrollers in production environments.
The gang programmer has the following features:
Two modes of operation—PC mode and standalone mode.
Ability to program up to 16 devices.
LEDs that indicate programming or verification failure.
A buzzer that indicates programming completion.
The gang programmer consists of the standard programmer base, a gang pro-
grammer top, and the standard programmer software. If you already have a
standard TMS370 Microcontroller programmer, the gang programmer top can
be purchased separately. (There is a different programmer top for each pack-
age of TMS370 microcontrollers.)
Figure 1–2. Gang Programmer Board
The push-button switch in the upper right-hand corner is marked start and is
used to start and stop programming or verification while operating in the stand-