Comfortable and reliable FLASH programming of either newly developed hardware or of existing designs is one of the most important requirements in the whole design phase of a microcontroller system. Universal tools that fulfill the requirements of fast and reliable programming with the possibility to automate the programming process are hard to find. As well as with all other products Hitex offers a universal solution that covers all programming needs of microcontroller-based systems during

• Development
• Test
• Production
• In-Field Update

UDE Memtool (developed and manufactured by pls Development Tools) is a universal tool that allows programming of microcontroller based embedded systems. UDE Memtool is available as a software only solution or in conjunction with the Universal Access Device UAD for fast programming through different interfaces.

UDE Memtool supports the following microcontroller architectures:

• Infineon C16x, C166CBC, XC16x and TriCore
• STMicroelectronics ST10, STR7 and ST30
• ARM7 and ARM9 based microcontroller architectures

UDE Memtool allows the programming of on-chip Flash devices but also of embedded systems with external Flash or a mixture of off-chip and on-chip Flash systems. It can also be customized to support the programming of external I2C EEPROMS or other non-volatile memories that are used for the programming of serial numbers or calibration data.

As communication channels ASC Bootstrap loader, CAN Bootstrap loader, CAN in combination with ASC Bootstrap loader and JTAG can be used. The standalone MemTool offers the host-target communication via a standard RS232 host interface (COMx).

UDE MemTool Product Overview

The programming can be controlled through the easy-to-use Memtool user's interface or through Visual Basic Scripts which allows to build a customized environment which easily adapts to third party production tools like LabView.