S E P - 4 0+

Universal, ISP capable programmer

Connection to PC through USB

SEP 40+ English Tech. Manual PDF format.

Ver. 3.10 - Rel. 04 April 2007.

• Small, fast and powerful universal programmer
• More than 19.052 supported devices (at December 2007)
• DIL40 ZIF socket, devices in DIL package up to 40 pins are supported without adapters
• In-circuit serial programming (ISP) capability included
• Connection to PC - USB port
• Easy to use control program, DOS and Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/XPx64/Vista compatible
• Free SW update, download from Internet
• Power supply, cable and software included

Features

GENERAL

• SEP 40+ is next member of new generation of Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP based grifo® universal programmers. Programmer is built to meet the demands of the development labs and field engineers to universal, but portable programmer.
• SEP 40+ is a small, fast and powerful programmer of all kinds of programmable devices. Using build-in in-circuit serial programming (ISP) connector the programmer is able to program ISP capable chips in-circuit.
• Provides very competitive price but excellent hardware design for reliable programming. Nice "value for money" in this class.
• Very fast programming due to high-speed FPGA driven hardware and support of high-speed USB. Surely faster than competitors in this category.
• SEP 40+ interfaces with the IBM PC, AT or above, portable or desktop personal computers through any standard USB port. Therefore you can take programmer and move it to another PC without assembly/disassembly of PC.

  HARDWARE

• 40 powerful TTL pindrivers provide H/L/pull_up/pull_down and read capability for each pin of socket. Advanced pindrivers incorporate high-quality high-speed circuitry to deliver signals without overshoot or ground bounce for all supported devices. Pin drivers operate down to 1.8V so you'll be ready to program the full range of today's advanced low-voltage devices.
• The programmer performs device insertion test (wrong device position in socket) and contact check (poor contact pin-to-socket) before it programs each device. These capabilities, supported by signature-byte check help prevent chip damage due to operator error.
• SEP 40+ programmer performs programming verification at the marginal level of supply voltage, which, obviously, improves programming yield, and guarantees long data retention.
• Various socket converters are available to handle device in PLCC, SOIC and other packages.

  SOFTWARE

• Programmer is driven by an easy-to-use control program with pull-down menus, hot keys and on-line help. Selecting of device is performed by its class, by manufacturer or simply by typing a fragment of vendor name and/or part number.
• Standard device-related commands (read, blank check, program, verify, erase) are enhanced by some test functions (insertion test, signature-byte check), and some special functions (autoincrement).
• All known data formats are supported. Automatic file format detection and conversion during load of file.
• The rich-featured autoincrement function enables to assign individual serial numbers to each programmed device - or simply increments a serial number, or the function enables to read serial numbers or any programmed device identification signatures from a file.

  CARE FOR THE CUSTOMERS

• It is important to remember that support of new devices requires only a software update due to the SEP 40+ hardware. With our prompt service you can have a new device added to the list of supported devices within hours! Free software updates are available by download from our WEB site.
• Keep-Current and AlgOR services, our next step to be customers satisfied.
  • Keep-Current service means, that grifo® send off the latest version of programmer software and updated user documentation (Keep-Current package) to customer . A Keep-Current service is your hassle-free guarantee that you are doing the highest quality programming on grifo® programmers, at minimal cost.
  • AlgOR (Algorithm On Request) service gives to the user tool to influence to amount and types of programmed devices as needed.

SEP 40+ Program - FREE - Update Please download and execute free management program. It allows You to check if the requested device is supported by programmer. Be sure that the selected programmer is the SEP 40+. Software for Windows 3.x; Windows 95; Windows 98; Win ME; Windows 2000/ Win XP; 2003; XPx64; Vista.

Technical specification

HARDWARE

Programmer

• two D/A converters for VCCP and VPP, controllable rise and fall time
• VCCP range 0..7V/350mA
• VPP range 0..25V/200mA
• FPGA based IEEE 1284 slave printer port, up to 1MB/s transfer rate
• autocalibration
• selftest capability

ZIF socket, pindriver

• 40-pin DIL ZIF (Zero Insertion Force) socket accepts both 300/600 mil devices up to 40-pins
• pindriver: 40 TTL pindrivers, universal GND/VCC/VPP pindriver
• FPGA based TTL driver provides H, L, CLK, pull-up, pull-down on all pindriver pins, level H selectable from 1.8 V up to 5V
• in-circuit serial programming (ISP) capability included
• continuity test: each pin is tested before every programming operation

DEVICE SUPPORT

Programmer

• EPROM: NMOS/CMOS, 27xxx and 27Cxxx series, with 8/16 bit data width, full support of LV series (*1*2)
• EEPROM: NMOS/CMOS, 28xxx, 28Cxxx, 27EExxx series, with 8/16 bit data width, full support of LV series (*1*2)
• Flash EPROM: 28Fxxx, 29Cxxx, 29Fxxx, 29BVxxx, 29LVxxx, 29Wxxx, 49Fxxx series, with 8/16 bit data width, full support of LV series (*1*2)
• Serial E(E)PROM: 17Cxxx, 24Cxxx, 24Fxxx, 25Cxxx, 59Cxxx, 85xxx, 93Cxxx, full support of LV series(*1)
• Configuration PROM: 17xxx series, LV series including
• NV RAM: Dallas DSxxx, SGS/Inmos MKxxx, SIMTEK STKxxx, XICOR 2xxx, ZMD U63x series
• PLD: series: Atmel, AMD-Vantis, Cypress, ICT, Lattice, NS, ... (*1)
• microcontrollori famiglia MCS51: 87Cxxx, 87LVxx, 89Cxxx, 89Sxxx, 89LVxxx di Atmel, Atmel W&M, Intel, Philips, SST, Winbond, 8-40 pins (*1), sia in parallelo che seriali (ISP)
• Microcontrollers MCS51 series: 87Cxxx, 87LVxx, 89Cxxx, 89Sxxx, 89LVxxx series from Atmel, Atmel W&M, Intel, Philips, SST, Winbond (*1*2)
• Microcontrollers Atmel AVR: ATtiny, AT90Sxxx, ATmega series (*1*2)
• Microcontrollers Microchip PICmicro: PIC12xxx, PIC16xxx, PIC17Cxxx, PIC18xxx series, 8-40 pins (*1*2)
• Microcontrollers Scenix (Ubicom): SX18xxx, SX20xxx, SX28xxx series
  

Programmer, through ISP connector

• Microcontrollers Atmel: AT89Sxxx, AT90Sxxxx, ATtiny, ATmega series
• Microcontrollers Microchip PICmicro: PIC12xxx, PIC16xxx, PIC17xxx, PIC18xxx series
• Microcontrollers EM Microelectronic: 4 and 8 bit series
  

Notes:

• (*1) - suitable adapters are available for non-DIL packages
• (*2) - there exist only a few adapters for devices with more than 40 pins. Therefore, please, consider a more powerful programmer (LabProg+, BeeProg, JetProg), if you need to program devices with more than 40 pins
• for all supported devices see actual DEVICE LIST
  

I.C. Tester

• Static RAM: 6116 .. 624000

Programming speed

Note. This times strongly depend on PC speed, LPT port type and operating system free resources. Therefore values of two different PC configurations are given for comparison.

Device	Operation	Mode	Time
27C010	programming and verify	in ZIF	29 sec.
AT29C040A	programming and verify	in ZIF	41 sec.
AM29F040	programming and verify	in ZIF	95 sec.
PIC16C67	programming and verify	in ZIF	10 sec.
PIC18F452	programming and verify	in ZIF	7 sec.
AT89C52	programming and verify	in ZIF	17 sec.
PIC16F876A	programming and verify	ISP	5 sec.
PIC12C508	programming and verify	ISP	3 sec.

Conditions: P4, 2.4 GHz, USB 2.0 high speed, Windows XP.
The programming times are preliminary, the improvement is in progress.