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minipro

An open source program for controlling the MiniPRO TL866xx series of chip programmers

Features

  • Compatibility with Minipro TL866CS and Minipro TL866A from Autoelectric (http://www.autoelectric.cn/)
  • More than 13000 target devices (including AVRs, PICs, various BIOSes and EEPROMs)
  • ZIF40 socket and ISP support
  • Vendor-specific MCU configuration bits
  • Chip ID verification
  • Overcurrent protection
  • System testing

This fork features

  • Advanced error handling
  • More options for partial flash read/write
  • Chips DB in text file, so user can add/edit chips without recompilation
  • BSD systems support (tested on FreeBSD)
  • Modern CMake build system
  • Less code, more clean code, fixed code style
  • All futures after fork is backported
  • Tool to extract chips database from vendor InfoIC.dll library

Prerequisites

You'll need some sort of Linux or BSD machine.

Compilation and Installation

sudo apt-get install build-essential git cmake pkgconf fakeroot dpkg-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev
git clone --recursive https://github.com/rozhuk-im/minipro.git
cd minipro
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j