The English name of programming equipment is PROGRAMMER, and some people call it WRITER. Some people called it BURNER earlier. This machine is used to burn a programmable IC, which can burn out the units [data] in these IC to produce different functions.

Since the appearance of recordable IC, designers can burn ICs with different functions as long as they prepare one IC, while material preparation personnel can only buy one IC to facilitate material preparation, but they must prepare programming equipment to burn them.

The reason why IC needs to be burned

First, there is a microcontroller or ARM controller in electronic products. In the production process, there is no program in the control chip at the beginning. In order to make MCU or ARM chip operate according to our designed function, it is necessary to burn the program execution file written by the project into the controller chip of electronic products.

Second, you need to burn the corresponding parameters. When burning MCU or ARM programs, it is sometimes necessary to set the encryption parameters of the program through serial port or USB interface or burn some parameters, such as the IP address and port data of wifi module, to ensure the normal operation of electronic products.

Third, burn files, such as fonts, pictures, ringtones, animations and other files. Now many electronic products have display screens. In order to give users a better user experience, it is necessary to ensure that the pre-processed high-definition photos are stored in MCU or ARM system. Font files are the underlying files of electronic products that require users to input Chinese characters.

Generally speaking, IC contains this program in order to ensure the normal operation of single chip microcomputer system or ARM chip, as well as the necessary files and parameters for safe operation.