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awinni Posted - 11/24/2008 : 22:08:05
Hi,

I have an EON 29F040A PLCC and a True USB Programmer and installed the actual version of the software because in the old version I was not able to find the EON 29F040A.
In the actual version I found it but the software doesnt recognize the ID of the PLCC correctly. It just says 7F7F. I think its a software problem because it just looks at two bytes for the ID instead of the four.
When I tell the software to use the other PLCC type (.....NT) of EON it recognizes the ID correctly but I only can access the first 256kb of the PLCC.
I also tried to use the Generic 29F040B but I get the same problem. It says that the ID is 7F7F and I cant do anything.

I think its a software problem because it recognizes the ID correctly when I use the wrong PLCC type (.....NT) in the software.

Could you please help me.
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ZLM Posted - 11/28/2008 : 00:34:01
Thank for the update.

I think it only need to fix the ID issue in the original class for the EN29F040A.

This will be fixed in the next software release.
awinni Posted - 11/26/2008 : 12:06:24
Thanks for your reply.
I tried those two tests.

At Test#1 it recognized the right ID at ID check. I read the data but after reading the data from 0x000000 to 0x03ffff was the same as in 0x040000 to 0x07ffff.
After that I erased the PLCC and tried to write the data on it.
After 50% of writing I get the message "write failed". I think its because it only accesses the first 256kb.
Here is the log of that:
ID check OK
Erasing...
Elapsed time: 8.31 seconds.
Erase completed.
ID check OK
Time:20:51:16
Writing...
Elapsed time: 30.92 seconds.
Time:20:51:47
Write failed, Address=0x040000, Buffer=0x49 Device=0xC4
Write failed


At Test#2 again I get the ID failed and it says that the ID is 7F7F.
I tried to read the data and there was just something starting at 0x040000
After that I erased the chip and wrote the data and...

it worked!!!!!!

I read the data to be sure and compared it with the data I wrote and it was the same.

Many many thanks to you ZLM, I am very happy!
ZLM Posted - 11/25/2008 : 10:40:46
Please try to add those two lines into devices.txt file:

Name="EN29F040A(Test#1)",ID="7F1C7F04",Class="29F002NT",Category="FLASH",MFG="Eon Silicon",CodeSize="524288";
Name="EN29F040A(Test#2)",ID="XXXX",Class="29F040B",Category="FLASH",MFG="Eon Silicon";

Restart the software and try on both devices EN29F040A(Test#1) and EN29F040A(Test#2) to see which one works.

The EN29F040A(Test#1) is to solve size issue and use ..NT class.
The EN29F040A(Test#2) is to skip the ID check and use original class.

Please post your testing result here. Thanks.

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