Has anyone had any success with a recent production "toolstick" programmer for the SiLabs 8051 derivatives, specifically the 'F330 model?
Picked one up for a project and am finding that the silabs windows application crashes on startup, while the open source linux driver (ec2drv) fails with USB read timeout errors.
Not to mention the PCB stock was a mess of fiberglass splinters where it had been sheared - so bad in fact that the first thing I did was mix up some 5 minute epoxy and paint it on the raw edge.
Will have to try the windows software on another machine, but this is disappointing - cheap development tools for tiny processors are great; but only if they work. Anyone had any luck recently?