wd5gnr / qtl866

GUI driver for minipro software found at https://github.com/vdudouyt/minipro

qtl866 - GUI driver for minipro EPROM/Device programmer software See also https://github.com/vdudouyt/minipro Copyright (C) 2014 Al Williams [email protected]

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There are three parts to this:

1. A shell script called miniprohex

The script is smart enough to determine the file type from the suffix (.hex or .srec) and uses srec_cat to convert back and forth.

miniprohex by Al Williams http://www.awce.com

Usage:

miniprohex [--o offset] [--unfill byte size] [--obs blksize] [--line-length length] [minipro_options] -r filename.ext

miniprohex [--o offset] [minirpo_options] -w filename.ext

This calls minipro after converting known file types to .bin for writing or converting bin files after reading.

--o: Offset for file conversion (see srec_cat)

--unfill: Unfil blocks of at least size of byte (see srec_cat)

--obs: Output block size (see srec_cat)

--line-length: Output line length max (see srec_cat)

Assumes minipro and srec_cat are on the path.

2. A QT GUI for minipro

You need QTCreator to compile -- just open the .pro file and run it or compile from inside QTCreator.

By default, the GUI calls minipro (which it expects on the path). But the options dialog lets you set a path, or you can point to minipro.hex to get the features of miniprohex.

You can also add options there such as: miniprohex --obs 16

3. A shell script that allows for editing binary files

Using the same technique, binhexedit is a script that converts hex or srec files to binary and calls a binary editor (by default bless) to edit the file and then converts it back on exit. This depends on srec_copy doing the conversion correctly in both directions, so you probably want to save a backup unless you are directly editing a .bin file.

Assumes bless and binhexedit are in your path. You need a -r to read a file with binhexedit as in:

binhexedit -r test.hex

You can set the name of the binary editor in the options dialog.

qtl866's Issues

does not work with arm

The GUI works very well on my x86-64 Linux box, but it never successfully calls minipro in Raspbian Linux on a Raspberry Pi. We just fall off the end of the parser and get the command list again.

The minipro software itself had the same problem with the command line, apparently due to the fact that chars are signed in x86-64 GCC and unsigned in ARM GCC. Adding the compiler flag -fsigned-char to the makefile fixed the problem there, but the same treatment did not fix qtl866. I am not savvy enough in QT to fix the problem there. I suspect the longer term solution is to figure out /why/ minipro requires signed chars and fix that. Will investigate on that end.
-JRS

Device not found due to parameter change

With minipro version 0.4, chips that admit package variation such as:

W25Q64FV(OTP)@SOIC16
W25Q64FV(OTP)@SOIC8
W25Q64FV(OTP)@WSON8

will not work (but W25Q64FV(OTP) does), with Device not found error (indicative of unknown -p parameter in minipro).
I suspect this is due to qtl866 using the old naming scheme (with spaces) and associating them with the text representation internally (typing the correct name without spaces will simply make qtl866 complain about unknown device, using the incorrect name will make minipro complain).

Cannot compile on Ubuntu 16.04

Hello!

Trying to build the executable with QtCreator on a Ubuntu amd64 produces the following messages:

mainwindow.cpp: In function 'QString getColoredText(QString, QString)':
mainwindow.cpp:37:63: error: 'QStringLiteral' was not declared in this scope
     return QStringLiteral("<span style='color: %1;'>%2</span>").arg(
                                                               ^
mainwindow.cpp:40:22: error: 'class QString' has no member named 'toHtmlEscaped'
                     .toHtmlEscaped()

Any idea how to fix that?

Device names not surrounded with quotes

Trying to manipulate a chip using the profile of "at29c256 @dip28" fails with "Unknown device". Poking around with the underlying minipro program, I see a troubling snag: If you don't surround the device name with quotes and the device name contains a space, minipro won't get the whole name. qtl866 is apparently not doing this.