Re: [avr-chat] STK500 w/ EEPROM chips

[Michael Hennebry]

An STK500 is not designed to deal with any stand alone EEPROM.
That said, you might be able to use it "off-label" as a breadboard.
If you have a breadboard,
the STK500's power supply might be the latter's only advantage.
Be sure that the DIP gets power and ground where needed and not elsewhere.
The STK500 has an external connection available for every pin.
To do what you want, you will need a programmer (hardware) that understands
the EEPROM and a PC program (software) that understands the programmer.

There might be generic programmers that avrdude
can use with the appropriate configuration file.
I think that avrdude assumes the AVR command set.
That means to make it go,
you would have to edit and recompile avrdude.
That might or might not be easier than starting from scratch.
If it's a SPI-based EEPROM that you are planning to use with an AVR,
presumably you know its command language.

It might be helpful to know what EEPROM is under discussion and what,
if any, software came with it.

All that said, it might be simpler to get
an AVR with enough EEPROM or to use its flash.

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