FlashCORE programmers get microcontroller support

Fast programming architecture widens its scope

FlashCORE, the ultra-high-speed architecture underlying Data I/O's ProLINE-RoadRunner automated in-line programming system, PS300FC high-speed offline handler and FlashPAK desktop programming system, is to support microcontroller devices from May 2003, it has been announced.

Analysts estimate that by 2005 the average person will come into contact with more than 300 microcontrollers a day. Home appliances, automobiles, office climate control, networking, security and phone systems increasingly rely on embedded microcontrollers as the "brains" behind their functionality. Dramatic increases in microcontroller use through 2005 will require superior programming and handling technology in prototyping and manufacturing these products.

FlashCORE products have already revolutionised the world of manufacturing flash-based products, with hundreds of millions of cellphones, set-top boxes, games machines and other high-volume products programmed using this technology.