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Programming an Actel device requires running Staple player, available from Actel, and generating a programmable data file with .STP extension. Programming some Altera devices require running Jam Player; available from Altera, and generating a programmable file with .JAM extension.

XPlayer is a kind of special programming tool which resides within Xeltek SuperPro IS01 ISP programmer and is mainly for CPLD series chips produced by ACTEL, ALTERA etc. As long as the customer provides corresponding STP or JAM files (such files can be generated using design tools such as ISE, Quartus II etc.), the corresponding device can be programmed. Select “XPlayer” on the “Device” menu bar, then the dialogue box pops up.

Device related information is already included with either .STP or .JAM file, so there is no need to select a device for programming. Please have a look at the below list of devices supported in XPlayer. May be more devices will be added in future.

ACTEL

ProASIC3 Devices

A3P015, A3P030, A3P060, A3P125, A3P250, A3P400, A3P600, A3P1000

ProASIC3E Devices

A3PE600, A3PE1500, A3PE3000

ProASIC3L

A3P250L, A3P600L, A3P1000L, A3PE600L1, A3PE3000L

ProASIC3 Nano

A3PN010, A3PN015, A3PN020, A3PN0301, A3PN060, A3PN125, A3PN250

Fusion

AFS090, AFS250, AFS600, AFS1500

IGLOO Devices

AGL015, AGL030, AGL060, AGL125, AGL250, AGL400, AGL600, AGL1000, AGLE600,
AGLE3000

ALTERA

MAX II

EPM240/G/Z, EPM570/G/Z, EPM1270/G, EPM2210/G

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We at Xeltek would like to introduce our interactive F.A.Q. page. This page can be found at the following link: http://www.xeltek.com/faq.html While developing this page, we put our customers at mind and made sure to answer a variety of questions spanning from software or hardware related problems with our programmers and even questions related to shipping costs and shipping time.

To help our customers with finding the answers they need, we created our F.A.Q. page with a collapsible tree design to help you easily navigate to the answers you seek. If you already have a specific question in mind, we included a search function to take you to the answers directly. Finally, we realize that we cannot cover all the questions you may have on our F.A.Q. page so we have included a new function where users can submit questions which they have not found the answer to under the “Submit Your Question” button. New questions which we find acceptable will be added onto our regular F.A.Q. page.

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Xeltek is proud to announce its achievement of supporting over 60,000 different devices on one single programmer, as the first and only company in the World. To celebrate this honor, and share this joy; Xeltek is offering 15% discounts on two stand-alone models; SuperPro 5000 and SuperPro 501S device programmers.

In August 2000, Xeltek brought a new term; Stand-alone Programming, to the device programming industry by introducing SuperPro 2000. As it is well known, SuperPro 2000 was the first stand-alone programmer that was designed with an LCD screen and digital buttons. By definition, stand-alone feature adds ability to the programmer of being used on computer free platforms. In other words, you can program the device without plugging your programmer to the PC. This gives you the mobility and flexibility of untied programming experience. It was a big milestone for device programmers industry. And Xeltek is the pioneer of stand-alone feature, and yet the only manufacturer who represents this unique feature to the users over the last 10 years.

If the programmer has stand-alone feature I addition to PC mode, each algorithm has to be developed twice since the one work on PC mode, doesn’t work on stand-alone mode. From this point of view, offering a stand-alone programmer (i.e. SuperPro 5000/5000E, SuperPro 501S, or SuperPro IS01) means offering two programmers in one price. And Xeltek has the technology and the capability to introduce new stand-alone programmers each year, and at the same time preserves its reputation and the rank within the industry by supplying high quality programmers with the largest device support in the world!

Please enjoy this special offer of Xeltek by getting instant 15% discount on our stand-alone programmers; SuperPro 5000 and/or SuperPro 501S. Any socket adapters purchased with these two models will also be eligible to get %15 discounts. This special offer begins on 18th of June, 2010 and it is valid for a limited time only. In order to get this special discount, please place your order through a sales representative by either emailing sales@xeltek.com or calling +1 (408) 530 8080 ext# 600

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Important announcement by Xeltek about illegal SuperPro 580U/280U sales

It is our duty to inform you ahead about the recent illegal activities on the market. As you may know, Xeltek has discontinued SuperPro 3000 series programmers such as SuperPro 3000U, SuperPro 9000U, SuperPro 580U, and SuperPro 280U early 2010; and have been selling SuperPro 5000 series programmers instead, such as SuperPro 5000/5000E, SuperPro 5004GP/5004EGP, SuperPro 501S, and SuperPro 500P besides SuperPro IS01 and SuperBOT, Some of our authorized distributor may still offer those discontinued programmers because of having overstock items. However, as we had witnessed recently, some Chinese companies had managed to copy SuperPro 580U and SuperPro 280U programmers, and have been releasing those illegal copies to the market. We strongly recommend you not to buy SuperPro 580U and SuperPro 280U from those unauthorized sellers as they have no after sales support or warranty.

Help to stop Xeltek Piracy by being a sensitive royal user of SuperPro by checking with us before purchasing those units:

http://www.xeltek.com/pages.php?pageid=229

Simply fill in the form that has been shared, and let us check our inventory/database for unauthorized serial numbers. This will not only save your money, but also saves our reputation and reliability. Please don’t credit such sellers, and ALWAYS BUY YOUR SUPERPRO PROGRAMMERS FROM AUTHORIZED RESELLERS.

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Our customer support is improving with your valuable feedbacks. In this manner, we are glad to announce that Xeltek has created and released instructional videos for device programming support on SuperPro Programmers.

Watch Tutorial Videos

These videos will help operators to understand and learn in a quicker way of programming with Xeltek SuperPro Programmers. Those educational videos will explain how to install the programmer software on your computer, how to program a device by using the PC hosted software and how to operate in stand-alone mode if supported by the programmer. Besides that, we will also demonstrate most common problems and troubleshooting techniques. Currently our technical support team has created instructional demonstration videos of the following list:

1. How to install SuperPro 5000
2. How to program a chip with SuperPro 9000U
3. Stand-alone operation with SuperPro 9000U
4. Gang programming with SuperPro 9000U in stand-alone mode (PPT)
5. How to plug SuperPro 9000U
6. Cluster programming with SuperPro 501S
7. How to use device search tool?

Xeltek will keep on bringing the modernity and uniqueness to device programmers industry. Please do not hesitate to submit your comments through “Contact Xeltek” box on the right lower corner and let us know how we can improve ourselves.

We are here to have you experience the best support you have ever received.

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Since Xeltek launched SuperPro 5000 Universal Programmer in 2008, it became one of the most sought after programmers in the industry today. The market was ripe for a programmer of such a caliber. And it filled that gap with its high performance, and reasonably low price. Prior to our introduction of
SuperPro 5000, the other high quality programmers have been selling for $5000-$10000. However, currently SuperPro 5000 and
SuperPro 5000E has been serving the industry between $1495 to $1995 per unit prices, with unquestionable better features.

• As of April, 2010; SuperPro 5000 supports over 59,000 devices, largest for the industry. In a very short time, this support number will exceed 60,000 barrier.
• Acts like 2 programmers in one unit with Stand-alone Mode and PC mode. LCD screen allows it to be controlled without a computer, and CF card slot allows you to save your project files.
• With built-in 32bit RISC MCU processor allows you to program at very fast speeds unlike other FBGA based device programmers.
• With its advanced technology and well developed device support algorithms, it programs 1Gb NAND Flash device in 108 seconds.
• Comes with 1 year device support request service for free. However, regular factory updates continues even after warranty period (currently 1000 device added every month).
• Comes with 2-years standard warranty.
• 144-pin drivers structure allows it to support recent and large size devices with highest performance.
• Programs devices with Vcc as low as 1.2V.
• Supports any Windows Operating Systems including Win 7 64bit.
• In System/In Circuit programming capability through optional ISP/ICP adapter.
• Besides commoditized standards, it is a lead-free (RoHS) programmer with approved CE certificate

Basically SuperPro 5000 and SuperPro 5000E provides anything and everything you need for high quality programming experience. And Xeltek is the proud manufacturer of this one of a kind programmer family.

Please do not hesitate to contact our sales department for additional questions at sales (at) Xeltek (dot) com.

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Every day, we receive bunch of device part numbers followed by the question: “Which programmers support my chip?”. In order to help you with these type of inquiries, we would like to give a quick demonstration about how to serve those customers, and what would be the proper way to come up with the results in a quicker way.

Let’s say we received the following part number “ATMEGA2561″ from a customer. We should simply go to Xeltek device search tool on Xeltek website, or device search tool that is integrated to your websites (more information will be provided about integrating this tool by the end of this article).

You can either search the part number by typing inside the device search icon on Xeltek main template:

Or you can go to advanced device search page and use advanced searching options: http://www.xeltek.com/device_search/search.php

Once you type the device part number, and click on search button; the system will start to scan thousands of devices within Xeltek device support database, and upon your selective approach it will list all the devices that include the part number you filled in the box. If it cannot find the exact match, it may list all the similar part numbers considering you had a typo.

As you can see above, the list resulted 2 part numbers. Since “ATMEGA2561V” also includes “ATMEGA2561″, Xeltek database showed both of them. At this point, if we know what is the device package type, we should click on that link that are listed under “Package” column (e.g.: click on MLF64); otherwise, to list the device support with all package types click on the device part number itself (e.g.: ATMEGA2561). Let’s click on device part number and see the entire list:

Let’s say we are looking for TQFP64 package type, and we are interested in SuperPro 5000 which is on the third row of the results. By clicking the SuperPro 5000 link, we can be directed to the product page for more information (if the user is coming from distributor’s website, he/she will be directed back to SuperPro 5000 product page on distributor’s website). Or if we already know we are going to buy SuperPro 5000, with the help of this tool we can also see what type of socket adapter we should get. According to the list above, in order to program “ATMEGA2561-TQFP64″ on SuperPro 5000, we should also get CX3013 socket adapter. To get more information about socket adapters, please link to CX socket adapter page:

http://www.xeltek.com/adapter/cx_adapter.php

What if I cannot find a match?

It is hard to believe searching a device part number that is not supported by our largest device support list within the industry; but once in a while it may happen. At those times, first thing you should do is going to Google Search or any search engine to check if the given part number is correct. For example, let’s say “EN291V040A” has been given by the customer. And our searched returned as follows:

And we decided to check Google for that device part number’s accuracy and we face such a result:

The page above tells you the part number is wrong. In these cases, we suggest you contacting your customer back and ask for the right part number. Going back to our example, we know that the right part number should be ” EN29LV040A”; one letter changes everything!

What if Google approves the part number but still no match on the system?

There is also possibility of receiving full part number from a customer such as ” ATMEGA2561V-8AU-ND”, and again the system will show no matches. For these kind of cases, you should enter more generic part number without speed grade, temperatures, and package codes. And the correct part number for this example “-8AU-ND” should be omitted, and should be searched as “ATMEGA2561V”.

If you still can’t list the results, it means somehow Xeltek is not supporting the device yet. For this case, please submit the form for requesting new device support through the web page below:

http://www.xeltek.com/pages.php?pageid=227

Did you know that you can install Device Search Tool on to your website?

Yes it is true. You can install this tool on your website, and serve your customers quickly and easily. It is such an effective tool, that you don’t even need to contact the Xeltek representative and wait for their answer, since different time zones may create delays with the answers.

And installing device search tool is as easy as adding a new image to your website. All you need to do is adding this image:

http://www.xeltek.com/images/devicesearch01.gif

or any Xeltek device search tool image:

http://www.xeltek.com/images/devicesearch02.jpg

http://www.xeltek.com/images/devicesearch03.gif

http://www.xeltek.com/images/devicesearch04.jpg

to your website where your customers can easily see. Having a descriptive short text below/next to it would be very helpful for your customers. And after you insert it you should link it to the unique URL address that Xeltek web team will assign you such as :

http://www.xeltek.com/device_search/search.php?company=XXX

The number at the end of the link will help us to link back to your website since device search tool will be hosted from www.xeltek.com. For this reason, having all product pages present on your website is a requirement for using device search tool. Otherwise, customers who started to use this tool initially from your website, won’t be back. Please have all product pages present prior to request device search tool integration. Please also remember that Xeltek web designers will happily insert all SuperPro product pages to your website at no cost.

Please also don’t forget that you can install device search tool taskbar to your computer which allows you to search devices without going to any website. For more information, please click on the link below:

http://www.xeltek.com/pages.php?pageid=243

If you need further support, please do not hesitate to contact Xeltek support team. We are always here to serve you.

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Since SuperPro 5004 series gang programmers have been launched in 2008, a new era has started for universal gang programmers industry. The market has migrated from conventional gang programmers design to faster speed, high technology SuperPro production programming solutions. So what has changed with SuperPro 5004 Gang programmers:

1. For traditional gang programmers, all sockets controlled by one processor and one data buffer which limits some important features unlike SuperPro programmers provides.
2. For traditional gang programmers, programming of chips is done simultaneously but verifying is done sequentially. In other words, the 8 socket programmer may only provide 5 to 6 times the output instead of 8. But you get the full outcome out of SuperPro gang programmers with its built-in RISC MCU.
3. Xeltek gang programmers are equipped with 144-pin drivers by default unlike other 48-pin gang programmers with limited device support.
4. Xeltek gang programmers support over 58K devices by being the industry leader as supporting largest device count. 60K device support is around the corner.
5. Asynchronous fast programming is ensured by each module being independent from one another. The programming starts automatically when a chip is inserted.
6. With SuperPro 5004GP programming family, 1 Gb NAND Flash can be programmer as low as 108 seconds.

Currently SuperPro 5004GP and SuperPro 5004EGP are listed as two of the gang programming solutions for Xeltek’s early 2010 product line. And these programmers are being highly demanded by engineering workshops, IC manufacturing labs, programming houses, etc…Basically any entity who is programming ICs in mass orders are either considering to switch SuperPro or already using our programmers.

What if 4 socket gang programmer is too much for your production line, and one socket single programmer is not enough? Have you ever heard of Clustered Programmers? With any stand-alone SuperPro programmer, you can cluster and use it as a gang programming solution. EspeciallySuperPro 501S 4-Cluster bundle is a preferred solution for this category. What are the advantages of clustered programming:

1. Start small and grow incrementally. You may start with 2 units and add more units as the need grows.
2. Clustering device programmers solution is based on operating in PC-free (stand-alone) mode and does not require any PC screen operation, and accordingly it minimizes the operator error.
3. SuperPro Programmers can be operated by an inexperienced operator with minimal training.
4. It allows a person to easily operate 10 or more programmers concurrently.
5. Data security is maintained by removing the Compact Flash card at the end of each operation.
6. Service is easy. If a unit breaks down, the rest of the system is still running while having the defective unit serviced.

Please take a look at the video where you can find demonstration of how to cluster SuperPro 501S in stand-alone mode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQVCwtUog6g

Since 2010, Xeltek has been offering SuperPro 5004GP, SuperPro 5004EGP, and SuperPro 501S 4-C as production programming solutions. Considering the outcome, and the performance; SuperPro Gang Programmers once again gives the highest value in return. Please do not hesitate to contact us atsales@xeltek.com

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Since Xeltek launched SuperPro 5000 Universal Programmer in 2008, it became one of the most sought after programmers in the industry today. The market was ripe for a programmer of such a caliber. And it filled that gap with its high performance, and reasonably low price. Prior to our introduction of SuperPro 5000, the other high quality programmers have been selling for $5000-$10000. However, currently SuperPro 5000 and SuperPro 5000E has been serving the industry between $1495 to $1995 per unit prices, with unquestionable better features.

• As of March, 2010; SuperPro 5000 supports over 58,000 devices, largest for the industry. In a very short time, this support number will exceed 60,000 barrier.
• Acts like 2 programmers in one unit with Stand-alon
  

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Some companies are advertising that they provide “lifetime” device support. This sounds very good, but what does it really mean?

Users reading this will think that they will be able to get requested device support on their programmer as long as they own the programmer.

Manufacturers, on the other hand, have following constraints:

1. Hardware limitation: Not all devices will be programmable on all types of programmers. Obviously, more expensive programmers are designed to support more devices. If you are concerned with future device support, choose from high-end programmers.
2. Time constraint: Semiconductor devices advance in technology so that a new chip may not be programmable on an old programmer. For example, a 1.2 volt device will not be programmable on a 5 volt programmer.
3. Warranty period: Service period for most products are bound by the manufacturer warranty period.
4. Manufacturer resource: Device update is a time consuming task and the number of devices supported and supportable in the future are directly related to ompany’s ability to allocate such a resource. Larger company can provide more resource and vice versa.

Most companies are bound by all 4 constraints mentioned above. So, what does it mean by “lifetime device support.” All of above constraints, which is a “limited support”. Don’t be fooled by the word.

If you are interested in getting future device support, please check the following factors:

1. How many devices are currently supported? SuperPro 5000 supports 58,000+ devices, the largest in the industry.
2. How many new devices has the manufacturer added yearly? Xeltek has added 10,000+ devices yearly, again the largest in the industry.
3. Trade-in policy: In the event that the user requested device is not updatable on the user programmer, is there an easy way to trade up? Yes, Xeltek offers between 30% – 75% trade-in value for trading up to one of Xeltek models.

In summary, Xeltek SuperPro 5000 programmer offers most current and future benefits of all the programmers in the market today.

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