[sdiy] Serial Flash memory programmer

[Richie Burnett]

Hi all,

Can anyone recommend a decent unit for erasing/programming/reading serial 
(SPI) Flash memory chips using a Windows PC over USB?  I'm only wanting to 
program or read the odd chip here and there, so only very low volumes.  I'm 
happy to use an exposed board "dev kit" type of thing, or a more expensive 
finished product, but ideally under GBP 200 ($250).  Mostly wanting to 
program 8-pin and 16-pin surface mount NOR Flash chips from the likes of 
Micron, Atmel, Microchip, Spansion, etc, from Intel HEX record files.

I know it's relatively easy to make my own programmer using a 
microcontroller, but at this time I am really busy and don't want to get 
bogged down in all the different page size, sector size, erase block size, 
programming configuration settings for each device that I might need to 
program.  I've spent many hours writing SPI Flash driver code on micros in 
the past, but just want to buy a tool I can rely on to do a job now.

Many thanks for any suggestions.

-Richie,