Ocean Optics USB Programmer User Manual

USB Programmer

Installation and Operation Instructions

Description

The Ocean Optics USB Programmer enables you to reprogram the EEPROM chip in your USB­enabled Ocean Optics spectrometer. Additionally, in certain situations, the USB Programmer allows
you to recover a corrupt EEPROM program from a USB-enabled Ocean Optics spectrometer (if
EEPROM programming is interrupted in mid-program).

USB Programmer Interface

The USB Programmer offers a simple-to-use interface with intuitive controls that allow you to quickly
and easily manage and correct EEPROM-related issues, should they arise.

Note

The USB Programmer is an extremely powerful tool. You should not make any
changes to your USB devices with the USB Programmer without a compelling reason
to do so.

The following sections provide instructions on both programming EEPROM chips and recovering
corrupt EEPROMs with the USB Programmer.

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USB Programmer Installation and Operation Instructions

Interface Controls

The USB Programmer interface is an intuitive, easy-to-use console. The paragraphs below detail the
various commands and controls available in the USB Programmer interface.

Menu Commands

The following commands are available from the Menu bar in the USB Programmer interface:

File Menu

The File menu contains the Unlock Features and the Exit options.

File Menu Options

 Unlock Features – Displays the Unlock Features dialog box. Enter the appropriate code in

this dialog box to unlock features customized for your equipment (if applicable).

 Exit – Closes the USB Programmer and exits the program.

Help Menu

The Help menu contains only the About USB Programmer option, which displays the About USB
Programmer

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dialog box. This dialog box provides information on the installed version of the

Command Buttons

The USB Programmer interface also contains the following four command buttons that perform
various functions.

 Refresh Tree – Updates the status of all connected USB devices and performs a system scan

for newly attached USB devices. Once updated, these devices are displayed in the left pane of
the USB Programmer interface.

 Get All Values – Refreshes the data shown in the right pane of the USB Programmer for the

currently selected device. You can edit specific entries for a selected device by double­clicking directly on the entry in the right pane of the USB Programmer.

 Save All Values – When data for a specific device is displayed in the right pane of the screen,

you can double-click on individual entries and modify the existing data in the EEPROM.
Then, you can save the newly edited values to the EEPROM. The Save All Values button
saves all changes you have made to data in the right pane of the USB Programmer to the
EEPROM of the selected device.

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