RE: [avrdude-dev] How to add I2C device disable preamble?

[Eric Weddington]

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> rg] On Behalf Of Bob Paddock
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:41 AM
> To: Joerg Wunsch
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> Subject: Re: [avrdude-dev] How to add I2C device disable preamble?
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> There is a threshold that Management Magic uses to decide
> at what point they are willing to pay to have the chips come
>  from the vendor programmed.  Usually someplace in
> the 3k to 10k range.  Below that magic point we still
> have to do them here, they won't pay the setup fees
> before that point is reached.  They also get really
> funny looks on their face when I suggest spending
> ~$10k on something like a BPMicro programmer.

Then it becomes a project management issue. Tally all of the costs (money
and time), and the pros and cons of all the different approaches (including
the cost of how long it will take you to try to extend avrdude) and present
it to your managers. Let them decide which of the various methods is the
least expensive according to their view.