With the ROVA USB-TOOLS programmer expensive and sold by few vendors, in 2013 I added support for Parallel port programming,
but with PCs equipped with Parallel ports increasingly rare, but this hasn’t been enough.
Recently I was contacted by a knowledgeable, well equipped reader by the name of Rajko Stojadinovic – who has added a frequently requested feature to ROVATool: Even more programming hardware options.
FTDI Based boards
This is a new option, which utilises inexpensive FTDI based boards for programming Realtek devices.
ALTERA USB Blaster II Clones
(Or pretty much anything else with a Cypress EZUSB-FX2 on it) This option isn’t entirely new, but details how it’s possible to convert one of these inexpensive dongles into a ROVA USB-TOOLS programmer.
Other changes
There aren’t any! Other than that I’ve split out ROVATool into its own download, as most of the users of this suite use the tool for RTD2660 platforms, there is little point in bundling the ROVAEdit tool with it, which is not applicable.
Download
- ROVATool 2.0
- ROVASuite 1.0 (Includes ROVATool 2.0, and ROVAEdit + other tools, same as v1.2)
Would you consider releasing the source code for rovatools/rovasuite?
Thanks!
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