chip programming
 

Hello there.
My question is in two-folds:
Can I program a chip and program it myself? Or must I have a company to do that for me?
If I can program a chip myself, what are the best languages to program a chip?
Thank you.

Re: chip programming
 

You can buy EPROM's which you can program yourself, most likely in assembly.

Re: chip programming
 

Hi,

You can program microcontrollers, unlike microprocessors they include more things on chip like memory, IO interface, RS232, DAC and some times even USB and RF functions. I recomend you PIC (from www.microchip.com) especially 16F84A or 16F877 (compared their price to their performance almost always it is cheaper to use a PIC than using a couple of standart logic ICs). You can code both in PIC ASM and using some C compilers written for PIC. They are fairly easy to upload code to; google PIC programmers you can build one yourself with few parts or buy one cheap (don't spend more than $20).

Loren Soth

Re: chip programming
 

Hi the.future.zone,
Also try:
http://www.amqrp.org/elmer160/lessons/index.html

It would help you from ground up.

Good luck.