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Production Programming - Automated Control

For automated production lines where a host computer is used to control one or many programming stations, P&E provides the Cyclone Stand Alone Programmer and the Cyclone Automated Control SDK. The combination of these two products allow a fully automated network of programmers to simultaneously program many devices under control of a single host PC.

The Cyclone Stand Alone Programmer is a fully self contained programmer which physically connects to the target and programs the target with one of it’s on board programming images. Since a Cyclone is self contained, many Cyclones can be used in parallel to simultaneously program many target processors without any degradation in performance.

The Cyclone Automated Control SDK allows a host computer to control the programming process, recover result and status information, provide dynamic data to be added to the programming image, and to change/verify the images in the Cyclone programmer. Many Cyclones may be simultaneously controlled by the SDK at the same regardless of the type of processor they are programming.

The SDK provides the following mechanisms to automatically launch and query the result of the programming process:

	A command line executable with a script file (Serial, USB, Ethernet)
	A dynamically linked library (DLL) for use with any PC application (Serial, USB, Ethernet) including several examples
	The Ethernet and Serial API’s for the Cyclone

Since the host PC only sends minimal control information to control each Cyclone, a single PC is actually capable of controlling many Cyclone units simultaneously. Here is a simple example of using the DLL in the SDK to control three Cyclone units simultaneously:

More detail in using the Automated Cyclone Control SDK can be found in this expert’s corner

Serial numbers and other dynamic data can be programmed in addition to the programming image. Serial numbers can be automatically provided for within the programming image or can be provided via the SDK command-line executable or DLL.

The Cyclone is also an extremely simple programming tool to use without a PC. Programming is as simple as pushing a single button on the unit. Programming launches and the on-board LCD displays the current state of the programming process. The final result is displayed on the LCD as well as on highly visible LEDs which clearly indicate the programming result (GREEN for good, RED for ERROR).

Cyclone programmers are available for many architectures. For detailed information about the feature set included with the Cyclone please refer to the user’s manual of one of the Cyclone units. Cyclones available from P&E:

Architecture	Part Number & Description	Price
68HC08 68HCS08 68RS08 68HC(S)12(X) ColdFire V1	CYCLONEPRO Hardware Debug Interface and Stand-Alone Programmer	US$499.00
Kinetis Qorivva MPC5xxx ColdFire V2/V3/V4 Power Architecture 5xx/8xx Power Architecture PX Series DSC ARM MAC7xxx	CYCLONE_MAX Programmer & Hardware Debug Interface for ColdFire V2-4, Power 5xx/8xx, Qorivva 5xxx, Kinetis, & ARM (USB, Ethernet, Serial)	US$899.00

The Cyclone Automated Control SDK comes in several versions which determine the number of Cyclones which can be controlled as well as the functionality available. The following table shows the available options. Click the “Learn More” buttons for detailed differences

Architecture	Part Number & Description	Price
ALL Architectures	Cyclone Automated Control Package: Basic Edition	FREE!	Download it
ALL Architectures	CYCLONE_SDK_PRO Cyclone Automated Control Package: Professional Edition	US$299.00
ALL Architectures	CYCLONE_SDK_ENT Cyclone Automated Control Package: Enterprise Edition	US$999.00

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