Coming Soon: Cyclone Multi-Channel Programmers

PEmicro is expanding our offering of production programming solutions. Watch this demonstration of a prototype of our upcoming Cyclone Multi-Channel Programmer (MCP) as it programs 27 NXP MCX and i.MX Devices in parallel:

Cloud-Connected Cyclone Programming

As an alternative to the SAP Image, users may instead choose to deploy the same self-contained programming package as a Cloud-Connected Job. This is managed via PEcloud, which provides an easy-to-use online interface to manage workflow. A Cloud-Connected Job allows for unprecedented visibility of, and control over, programming operations, which reduces distribution overhead and minimizes the risk of errors while increasing security.

Extremely Fast Programming Speeds

PEmicro's Cyclone FX programmer provides extremely high-speed and robust debug communications rates for NXP' ARM® Cortex® devices. With debug shift speeds reaching 75 Mbits/s, the download and verification rates achieved for almost every ARM Cortex device, even low-speed Cortex M0 parts, are in the MBytes per second range.

Here are Cyclone FX programming speeds for a sampling of ARM devices:

1. The verification rate for actual byte-by-byte verification is extremely fast. Even for devices where the flash programming rate is limited by the flash architecture, the verification rate that the Cyclone FX achieves results in substantial time savings.
2. As memory sizes increase and target flash technology improves, the impressive bandwidth advantage that the Cyclone FX has over competitive products will result in ever larger savings on the production line.

Below are Cyclone FX programming speeds for some non-ARM devices:

User Options Programming Support

Some NXP ARM devices include fuses: areas of flash memory dedicated to programming user configuration data. Such areas can include specific bits for programming options, such as a watchdog timer enable, or the bootloader size. Because some writes to such areas can be sensitive or permanent, it is important that the developer is able to write these options correctly the first time and avoid mis-programming adjacent options that they wish to leave untouched.

PEmicro supports User Options programming for several NXP devices through special programming commands that allow the user to create/modify a User Options file, which can then be specified as part of programming.