Other Parts Discussed in Thread: PGA308, PGA309
Can I make a few suggestions:
Please clean up the dates within the filenanes in the FTP site: ftp://ftp.ti.com/pub/linear_apps/
A fair amount of stuff is missing the year. e.g. PGA308-NEW_MAR9 This is like grandma when she made jam, She labeled them all New. Is this Mar 9, 1901 or 2011?
Some of the PGA30x software is in LabView and no where can it be found (I suggest README) what version of LabView. Labview is very wierd, at least when I used it, where NI always wants you to be current and the latest version sometimes will not convert all previous versions. So, I think, mentioning the version is on order.
The same is true for EXCEL. Mention the version and the options that need to be installed. It was nice that one of the spreadsheets mentions what's needed and how to install on the first page.
I did find a fair number of embedded PDF links not to work in the PGA308 and PGA309 datasheets.
While doing a glance over the documentation, suggested EEPROMS didn't jump at me.
The other thing that did not jump out at me was the suggested method to connect the programmer to one's built circuit and you can;t really disconnect all of the pins of the PGA309/EEPROM.
It looks as if those wanting to do a custom whatever, LABView would probably be the way to go. I know some companies create a DLL which LabVIEW can use and so can any language.
I looked at the scripts used to drive the USB platform and it looks like it could possibly use some enhancements in decoding messages.
Pretty impressive.