PORTABILITY

The EMP-11 is extremely portable; since it doesn't occupy a bus card in your PC, you can pack it up and take it with you anytime you wish. At only 1.5"x5"x8", with a 2" high power transformer, the EMP-11 fits into a briefcase or toolbox with ease. The programmer, parallel cable, transformer, and Family Modules, together weigh in at less than three pounds!

STABILITY

The EMP-11 carries a 1 year warranty on all parts and labor, and a 30 day money-back guarantee (restocking fee may apply). The EMP-11 is static-protected at the ZIF Socket, Family Module socket, parallel port, and power connector. The static protection on the parallel port also protects the parallel port on the EMP-11 from the 12 volts of a serial port. It's case is made of tough .125" thick ABS plastic. There is almost nothing to wear out on the EMP-11; no fan, not even a power switch. The only moving part on the EMP-11 is the Family Module, and that only moves when you switch device families. Compliant, for sale into the European Community.

FAMILY MODULES

Family modules are not an entirely new idea. They have been used in other programmers from time to time, to inexpensively route power and ground to the device. When you’re programming devices fairly slow, then straight slide-in connectors are just fine. However, the EMP-11 and EMP-21 program at speeds near the theoretical limit devices, so the digital signals traveling to the device must be clean, and the power and ground lines must be solid. Slide-in connectors can experience noise problems and higher resistance. The connectors that the EMP-11 and EMP-21 use are the same snap-in SIMM connectors that you may have holding the DRAM in your PC. The purpose of Family modules is to allow us to use a few high quality pin drivers, instead of using a cheaper pin driver on each pin on the ZIF socket. This translates to cleaner, more manageable waveforms, at a much lower price. For a list of Family Module Adapters for use with the EMP-11