Engineering Technical Laboratory Rev.

µPD78 series microcontroller EEPROM Programmer

User’s Guide

© ETL 2004 Microcontroller Development Tool

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. PREFACE 3
2. CHECKLIST AND REQUIREMENTS 3
3. INSTALLATION AND USE 4
3.1 PROGRAMMER CHECK AND CONNECTION TO PC 5
3.2 PROGRAMMER FIRMWARE UPDATE 5
4. INTERFACE TYPES 6
4.1 IN-CIRCUIT PROGRAMMING 5
5. WORKING WITH TARGET MCU 7
5.1. In-Circuit EEPROM reading example 7
5.1.2 In-Circuit EEPROM programming example 7
6. FILE OPERATIONS 8
6.1 LOAD FILE INTO BUFFER 8
6.2 SAVE FILE FROM BUFFER 8
7. ERRORS AND TROUBLESHOOTING 9
8. WARRANTY STATEMENT 11
9. APPENDIX 12
In-Circuit wiring diagram for uPD780973 MCU 12
In-Circuit wiring diagram for uPD78(F)0948/49 MCU 13
In-Circuit wiring diagram for uPD780828A MCU 14

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 1. PREFACE

This manual will guide you through the installation and operation of the ETL uPD780973
Programmer, referenced hereafter as the uPD78-Programmer.
The uPD78-Programmer has been designed for Reading, Programming of EEPROM
contents of the next NEC Microcontroller Unit (MCU):

9 uPD780973
9 uPD780949
9 uPD78F0949
9 uPD78F0828A M1

& Note: Devices that not mentioned above in list can’t be guaranteed of correct
reading, programming by uPD78-Programmer.

2. CHECKLIST AND REQUIREMENTS

The following describes what items are supplied with the uPD78-Programmer:
9 uPD78-Programmer – supplied
9 Cable -A DB9 “straight-thru” cable - supplied
9 uPD78-Programmer PC software on CD-ROM – Optional Extra

The PC system requirements :

„ Desktop PC and a free Serial Communication Port (COM1...8)
„ Memory - Minimum 32 Mbytes
„ Display - Color SVGA display recommended
„ Preinstalled DWG Viewer 3.0 software*
„ Power supply 12 Volt/500 mA linear power supply source
„ OS -MS-Windows (Win98, Win2000/XP)

& Note: Free DWG Viewer 3.0 software can be downloaded

from http://www.etlweb.com/files/viewers/dwgviewer.zip

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 3. INSTALLATION AND USE

The uPD78-Programmer includes two LED’s and mode jumper (Figure 1).
Color LED’s indicates programmer state and external power supply voltage (Table 1, 2).

GREEN uPD78-Programmer is ready.

GREEN Flashing uPD78-Programmer is busy.
DARK Voltage applied to uPD78-Programmer lower than 6 Volt.
Table 1. LED D2 color meaning

GREEN All signals on In-Circuit Programmer connector are active.

DARK Signals on In-Circuit Programmer connector are deactivated (in three state).
Table 2. LED D3 color meaning

Jumper-1 (JP1) is intended for uPD78-Programmer mode selection (see Table 3).

JP1 Shorted Normal operation. NEC device EEPROM Reading/Programming.

JP1 Opened Service mode. uPD78-Programmer firmware update.

Table 3. uPD78-Programmer operation modes

Programmer Firmware In-Circuit

Operation mode Update Programming
LED (D2) Jumper JP1 Connector
PC Serial Port
Con nector

In-Circuit
Bus activity
LED (D3)

External
Power Supply
Connector (9-12V)
Figure 1. The uPD78-Programmer board layout

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 3.1 PROGRAMMER CHECK AND CONNECTION TO PC

„ Connect the power supply source to uPD78-Programmer (an external 12 V DC power

supply source is required).
„ Attach a COM port cable to the 9-pin connector on the programmer and to a COM port
on the PC.
„ Insert jumper JP1 (see Figure 1).
„ Turn On power supply source and make sure that LED D1 appear green.
„ Start uPD78-Programmer software.
„ After few seconds you should see on display message: “uPD780973 Programmer Ver-
X.X detected”.
„ In case when you should see message: “uPD780973 Programmer Ver-X.X not found”,
change COM port number. To do that select “Tools” menu item and than select “Comm
Port Options”. Select new COM port number. After pressing “OK” button the new
setting will be applied and software reattempts connection with programmer.
„ Now uPD78-Programmer ready to operate.

& Note: Update uPD78-Programmer firmware if required (see Section 3.2).

3.2 PROGRAMMER FIRMWARE UPDATE

This section describes how to update firmware (ATMEGA 16) of uPD78-Programmer.

„ Remove JP1 (see Figure 1).
„ Turn On power supply; make sure that LED D1 appears green.
„ Start uPD78-Programmer software.
„ Compare firmware version “uPD780973 Programmer Ver-X.X detected” and version
specified in “Help>About” menu item.
„ If versions not coincide, follow next steps to update firmware.
„ Select menu item “Tools>Firmware Update”.
„ After message box “Firmware Update” appeared, press “OK” button.
„ After firmware update completed, turn off power supply, close uPD78-Programmer
software.
„ Insert JP1.
„ Turn On power supply. Make sure that LED1 appear green.
„ Start uPD78-Programmer software on PC. New firmware version “uPD780973
Programmer Ver-X.X detected” will appear.

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 4. INTERFACE TYPES

This section describes In-Circuit Programming (ICP) interface, of uPD78-Programmer.

4.1 IN-CIRCUIT PROGRAMMING

In-Circuit programming interface is basic for uPD78-Programmer. With this interface uPD78-
Programmer automatically detects target MCU bus speed. Ceramic resonator connected to NEC
MCU must be in range from 4 MHz to 8.372 MHz. Signals required for communication with target
MCU described in Table 3.

PIN number Programmer Signal Description

1 Communication Pin1
2 Communication Pin2
3 Communication Pin3
4 Communication Pin4
5 Communication Pin5
6 Communication Pin6
7 Communication Pin7
8 Communication Pin8
9 IC Pin(Factory test mode)
10 Reset Pin
11 Communication Pin9
12 Communication Pin10
13 Built-in power supply +5V (Vcc).
14 Signal Ground (Vdd)

Table 3. Pin functions of uPD78-Programmer ICP connector

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 5. WORKING WITH TARGET MCU

This section contains overall information about NEC78 MCUs supported by uPD78-
Programmer. When uPD78-Programmer successfully installed (see Section 3) target devices can
be read, program and verify.

5.1 In-Circuit EEPROM reading example

„ Connect required pins to board with target MCU (see Appendix).

„ Apply power to uPD78-Programmer. LED D2 became to green light (see Table 1).
„ Select corresponding device in uPD78-Programmer software (“Device” button).
„ Select “Read Sequence” panel in uPD78-Programmer software.
„ Press “EEPROM” button.
„ Press “Start” button.
„ LED D3 on uPD78-Programmer became to green light. That means that +5 voltage
regulator switched on and VCC applied to target MCU.
„ Now uPD78-Programmer automatically detects MCU bus speed.
„ When LED D2 on uPD78-Programmer became permanent green, reading completed.
Target MCU powered off.
„ After read sequence successfully completed it is necessarily to save memory dump to
file (see Section 6.2).
„ If some errors appeared during reading process refer to Section 7.

5.2 In-Circuit EEPROM programming example

„ Connect required pins to board with target MCU (see Appendix).

„ Apply power to uPD78-Programmer. LED D2 became to green light (see Table 1).
„ Select corresponding device in uPD78-Programmer software (“Device” Button).
„ Load EEPROM data from file (see Section 6.1) or enter data to Hex Editor.
„ Select “Program Sequence” panel in uPD78-Programmer software.
„ Press “EEPROM” button.
„ Press “Start” button.
„ LED D3 on uPD78-Programmer became to green light. That means that +5 voltage
regulator switched on and VCC applied to target MCU.
„ Now uPD78-Programmer automatically detects MCU bus speed.
„ When LED D2 on uPD78-Programmer became permanent green, programming
completed. Target MCU powered off.
„ If some errors appeared during programming process refer to Section 7.

& Note: Strongly recommended before EEPROM programming, for a first time,
read EEPROM contents and save it to file.

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 6. FILE OPERATIONS
This section describes basic rules working with files. Memory dump from Hex Editor (Buffer)
can be load/save from/to hard disk. Also short descriptions such as project name, MCU type and
memory cell assignment can be done for future fast remind. uPD78-Programmer accepts tree types
of file formats:
9 BIN (Binary format)
9 Motorola S-Record (4 byte address)
9 Motorola S-Record (6 byte address)
9 EEF (Extended ETL Format)

6.1 LOAD FILE INTO BUFFER

„ Select “File>Open” menu item.

„ Press “Browse” button.
„ In File Open Dialog window, select file witch need to be open.
„ Press “Open” button.
„ Than opposite “Auto Format Detected:” text, select correct file format. Note that software
try automatically detects file format, but unknown records in file will fail this detection.
“Load Entire file” check box must be checked if automatically loading procedures
required.
„ Than press “OK” button.
Sometimes load data from file to specific buffer allocations required. For Example if required
load buffer from $F900 address from binary file beginning from $0000 address follow next steps:
„ Select “File>Open” menu item.
„ Press “Browse” button.
„ In File Open Dialog window, select file which need to be open.
„ Press “Open” button.
„ Than, opposite “Auto Format Detected:” select Binary format.
„ Uncheck “Load Entire File” check box.
„ In field “Offset Value to Place Data to Buffer:” enter 0xF900.
„ Than press “OK” button.
„ Now data placed to Hex Editor Buffer from the beginning of 0x0400 address.
If more complicated operations with files required, for example load Hex Editor Buffer from
many files “Lowest Address From File To Load”, “Highest Address From File To Load” and
“Clear Buffer Before Loading File” options are available.

6.2 SAVE FILE FROM BUFFER

„ Select “File>Save” menu item.

„ Press “Browse” button.
„ Select directory in which file will be saved.
„ Type file name, for example “test1”
„ Press “Save” button.
„ Than select format in which file will be saved*.
„ Press “OK” button.

& Note: Use EEF Format for future “Load File Into Buffer” automatically
processing. Also, only in EEF Format Project Description, Device Name and
Memory Cells attributes can be saved.

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 7. ERRORS AND TROUBLESHOOTING

This section describes most recently encountered problems, errors and fixing solutions.

„ Problem: LED D1 (see Figure 1) Dark.

„ Causes: This problem can accrue when external power supply connected to uPD78-
Programmer is damaged or connected in wrong polarity.
„ Solutions: Check voltage on uPD78-Programmer power clamps. It must be 9-12 V.

„ Error Message: uPD780973 Programmer not found.

„ Causes: This message can appear when uPD78-Programmer software couldn’t
establish connection with uPD78-Programmer board.
„ Solutions: Check connection of COM port cable from PC to uPD78-Programmer
board. Apply power from external power supply to uPD78-Programmer. In
menu item “Tools>Comm Port Options” select correct COM port number.

„ Error Message: Communication Error.

„ Causes: This message can appear when Communication between uPD78-
Programmer and PC is broken.
„ Solutions: Check COM port cable connection to board and PC. If message not
disappear restart the computer.

„ Error Message: IC Pin must be in 'high' state (line 9).

„ Causes: This message can appear when MCU IC pin connected to ground through
external components.
„ Solutions: Cut any component from IC pin.

„ Error Message: Reset Pin must be in 'high' state (line 10).

„ Causes: This message can appear when MCU Reset pin connected to ground through
external components.
„ Solutions: Cut any component from Reset pin.

„ Error Message: External Reset Occurred. Disconnect Reset pin (line 10) from external
circuit.
„ Causes: This message can appear when in time on reading/programming reset pulse
appeared on MCU Reset pin from external circuit.
„ Solutions: Cut any component and traces from Reset pin.

„ Error Message: Parallel Communication Lines (1-8) Setup Error.

„ Causes: This message can appear when communication lines 1-8 (see Table 3) pin
connected to ground or Vcc through external components.
„ Solutions: Cut any component from pins.

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 „ Error Message: Pin Tester Errors.
„ Causes: This message can appear when NEC MCU pin(s) connected to ground or
Vcc through external components.
„ Solutions: Cut any component from pin. To find out what pin must to be disconnected
refer to Table 3 and Appendix.

„ Error Message: Echo Error.

„ Causes: This message can appear when programmer communication line 11
connected to ground or Vcc through external components. Or ceramic
resonator on NEC MCU has frequency instability.
„ Solutions: Cut any component from pin. To find out what pin must to be disconnected
refer to Table 3 and Appendix. Or replace ceramic resonator connected to
NEC MCU.

„ Error Message: No Echo From Device.

„ Causes: This message can appear when programmer lines connected in wrong way
with NEC MCU or wrong device selected in PC software.
„ Solutions: Check lines connected to MCU and device selected in Device dialog on PC.
Try to reconnect by pressing "Start" Button

„ Error Message: Target Device Speed too low.

„ Causes: This message can appear when ceramic resonator frequency connected to
NEC MCU is too low.
„ Solutions: Replace ceramic resonator with frequency from 4-8 MHz.

„ Error Message: Readout time-out Error.

„ Causes: This message can appear when NEC MCU do not respond long time.
„ Solutions: Check lines connected to MCU and try to reconnect by pressing "Start"
Button

„ Error Message: Transmitter time-out Error.

„ Causes: This message can appear when NEC MCU do not respond long time.
„ Solutions: Check lines connected to MCU and try to reconnect by pressing "Start"
Button

„ Error Message: Programming time-out Error.

„ Causes: This message can appear when NEC MCU do not respond long time.
„ Solutions: Check lines connected to MCU and try to reconnect by pressing "Start"
Button

„ Error Message: Programming Error.

„ Causes: This message can appear when programming of EEPROM completed with
errors.

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 „ Solutions: Try to repeat programming sequence. If error still exists replace ceramic
resonator to 8MHz frequency.

„ Error Message: External Power Supply Error, Current Protection.

„ Causes: This message can appear when current consumption from built-in power
supply grater than 250 mA.
„ Solutions: Check target MCU power pins on short circuit.

„ Error Message: WRONG SUBROUTINE CALL

WRONG DEVICE TYPE
„ Causes: These messages can appear when fatal problems with UPD78-Programmer
hardware/firmware accrued.
„ Solutions: Contact ETL technical support.

& Note: uPD78-Programmer has Log Window which can be stored to file. To
perform this operation right clicks on Log Window. Than click on “Save to
uPD78prog.log file“ menu item. Now this file can be found in the same
directory as UPD78-Programmer software. Log File can be send by E-mail to
[email protected] for non described problem solution.

8. WARRANTY STATEMENT
ETL warrants that Product delivered shall conform to applicable. Report any defects for a 45
days period, from the applicable data on invoice.

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9. APPENDIX

7
1
2
3
4
5
6
8
S12/P90
S11/P91
S10/P92
S9/P93
S8/P94
S7/P95
S6/P96
S5/P97

COM3
COM2
COM1
S4
S3
S2
S1
S0
80 79 78 77 76 75 74 73 72 71 70 69 68 67 66 65

P87/S13 1 64 COM0
P86/S14 2 63 VL C D
P85/S15 3 62 SMV S S
P84/S16 4 61 SMV D D
P83/S17 5 60 SM11/P20
P82/S18 6 59 SM12/P21
TPO/P81/S19 7 58 SM13/P22
9 IC (VP P) 8 57 SM14/P23
X1 9 56 SM21/P24
X2 10 55 SM22/P25
14 VS S 11
µ PD780973GF(A), 78F0974GF
54 SM23/P26
13 VD D 12 53 SM24/P27
10 RESET 13 80-pin plastic QFP 52 SM31/P30
P07 14 51 SM32/P31
P06 15 50 SM33/P32
P05 16 49 SM34/P33
P04 17 48 SM41/P34
P03 18 47 SM42/P35
INTP2/P02 19 46 SM43/P36
INTP1/P01 20 45 SM44/P37
INTP0/P00 21 44 SMV D D
AVR E F 22 43 SMV S S
P14/ANI4 23 42 SGO/SGOF/P61
P13/ANI3 24 41 SGOA/PCL/P60

25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
SCK/P50

RxD/P53

TI00/P40
TI01/P41
TI02/P42
V DD
AVSS

VSS
ANI2/P12
ANI1/P11
ANI0/P10

SO/P51
SI/P52

TxD/P54

TIO2/P43
TIO3/P44
11

12

Figure 2. In-Circuit wiring diagram for uPD780973 MCU

& Note: In RED color denoted lines from UPD78-Programmer that must be
connected to target MCU.

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1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

P52/A10/S37
P53/A11/S36
P54/A12/S35
P55/A13/S34
P56/A14/S33
P57/A15/S32
P50/A8/S39
P51/A9/S38
P67/ASTB
P40/AD0
P41/AD1
P42/AD2
P43/AD3
P44/AD4
P45/AD5
P46/AD6
P47/AD7
P65/WR
P64/RD
CRxD
100 99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 90 89 88 87 86 85 84 83 82 81
CTxD 1 80 P70/S31
P00/INTP0 2 79 P71/S30
P01/INTP1 3 78 P72/S29
P02/INTP2 4 77 P73/S28
P03/INTP3/T2PO 5 76 P74/S27
P04/INTP4/TI01 6 75 P75/S26
P05/TI00/TO0 7 74 P76/S25
P06/TI50/TO50 8 73 P77/S24
P07/TI51/TO51 9 72 P120/S23
P20/SI0 10
µPD780948GF(A) 71 P121/S22
P21/SO0 11 µPD780949GF(A) 70 P122/S21
P22/SCK0 12 µPD78F0948GF 69 P123/S20
P23/SI1/SO1 13 µPD78F0949GF 68 P124/S19
P24/SCK1 14 67 P125/S18
P25/RxD 15 66 P126/S17
11 P26/TxD 16 65 P127/S16
10 RESET 17 100-pin plastic QFP 64 P130/S15
X1 18 63 P131/S14
X2 19 62 P132/S13
9 VPP(/IC) 20 61 P133/S12
CL1/CCLK 21 60 P134/S11
CL2 22 59 P135/S10
14 V SS2 23 58 P136/S9
13 V D D2 24 57 P137/S8
AV DD 25 56 P140/S7
P10/ANI0 26 55 P141/S6
P11/ANI1 27 54 P142/S5
P12/ANI2 28 53 P143/S4
P13/ANI3 29 52 P144/S3
P14/ANI4 30 51 P145/S2
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
P34/SGO/SGOF
AVS S

P33/PCL/SGOA
P15/ANI5
P16/ANI6
P17/ANI7

P30/TI20
P31/TI21
P32/TI22

V SS1
V D D1
VLC0
VLC1
VLC2
COM0
COM1
COM2
COM3
P147/S0
P146/S1

Figure 3. In-Circuit wiring diagram for uPD78(F)0948/49 MCU

& Note: In RED color denoted lines from UPD78-Programmer that must be
connected to target MCU.

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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
P81/S14
P82/S13
P83/S12
P84/S11
P85/S10

P40/S7
P41/S6
P42/S5
P43 /S4
P44/S3

P47/S0
P86/S9
P87/S8

P46/S1
P45/S2

COM3
COM2
COM1
COM0
VLCD
80 79 78 77 76 75 74 73 72 71 70 69 68 67 66 65 64 63 62 61
S15/P80 1 60 SMVSS
S16/P97 2 59 SMVDD
S17/P96 3 58 SM11/P20
S18/SI31/P95 4 57 SM12/P21
S19/SO31/SIO31/P94 5 56 SM13/P22
S20/SCK31/P93 6 55 SM14/P23
S21/TPO/P92 7 PD780824AGC(A) 54 SM21/P24
S22/TIO51/P91 8 PD78F0826AGC(A) 53 SM22/P25
S23/TI22/P90 9 PD780828AGC(A) 52 SM23/P26
PD78F0828AGC(A)
11 S24/SI30/P37 10 51 SM24/P27
S25/SO30/P36 11 50 SM31/P50
80-pin plastic QFP
S26/SC K30/P35 12 49 SM32/P51
S27/TIO50/P34 13 48 SM33/P52
9 IC /Vpp 14 47 SM34/P53
X1 15 46 SM41/P54
X2 16 45 SM42/P55
14 VSS0 17 44 SM43/P56

13 VDD0 18 43 SM44/P57
CTXD 19 42 SMVDD
CRXD 20 41 SMVSS
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
ANI3/P13

TxD0/P63

SGOA/PCL/P61
SGO/SGOF/P60
RESET
AVDD /AVREF
ANI0/P10
ANI1/P11
ANI2/P12

ANI4/P14

V SS1
V DD1
INTP0/P00
INTP1/P 01
INTP2/P02
C CLK/P03
TI21/P65
TI2 0/P64
AVss

RxD 0/P62

10
12

Figure 4. In-Circuit wiring diagram for uPD78(F)0828A MCU

& Note: In RED color denoted lines from UPD78-Programmer that must be
connected to target MCU.

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