Log file

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The dialog allows set up of a log or logs of the device programming.

Element of dialog

Description

 

Enable log file

Checking this box enables logging the device programming sessions and setting the log parameters below:

Separate log file for each device

These two toggled radio buttons set if the logs will be separated by a manufacturer or by the target device type or a single log that will be kept for all the devices being programmed.

File Name (Generated Automatically)

Another two toggled radio buttons that set what specifier will be included into the log file name: both the manufacturer and device type (for example: Atmel AT89C51, Microchip PIC18F2525, etc.)  or just the device type (for example:  AT89C51, PIC18F2525, etc.).

Folder for log file:

This is a field for entering a full path to the folder where the log file will be kept. There is also a button for the path browsing.

Single log file for all device types

By checking this radio button you select keeping one common log for all types of the devices being programmed.

File Name

This is a field for entering a full path to the folder where the common log file will be kept. There is also a button for the path browsing.

Log File Contents

A set of the log file options.

Gang mode: Socket #

If the device programming was conducted in the Gang (multiprogramming) mode and if this box is checked the socket number will be logged.

Date/Time

By checking this box you enable logging the date and time of the device programming.

Events (device type change, file names, etc.)

By checking this box you enable logging of all the events associated with the device programming, e.g. the target device replacement, loaded file names, etc.

Device operation

By checking this box you enable logging of all the events associated with the device manipulations.

Detailed Device operation

By checking this box you enable more detailed logging of all the events associated with the device manipulations.

Operation Result

By checking this box you enable logging the results of the programming operations.

Device #/Good devices/Bad devices

By checking this box you enable logging a full number of the devices programmed, number of successfully programmed devices and number of failed ones.

Serial Number

By checking this box you enable logging the serial number read from the device.

Signature string

By checking this box you enable logging the signature string read from the device.

Checksum

By checking this box you enable logging the checksum value read from the device.

Buffer name

By checking this box you enable logging the buffer name.

Programming address

By checking this box you enable logging the ranges of the device locations which have been programmed.

Programming options

By checking this box you enable logging all the programming options.

Log File Format

A pair of toggled radio buttons: one sets the plain text format of the log file,  the second sets the tabulated text to be viewed in the Microsoft Excel format.

Log File Overwrite Mode

A pair of toggled radio buttons, checking the top one sets the mode of appending new records to a specified log file and checking the second overwrites the old log every time the ChipProg re-starts.

Warn if size exceeds

If this box is checked then every time when the log size exceeds a user-specified value the ChipProgUSB issues a warning.

Immediately write log file to disk, no buffering

If this box is checked then the ChipProgUSB does not buffer the log to the computer RAM but writes it straight to the drive.