Philips 87c552 platform

Hi,

Been searching around the blogs and forums and couldn’t find anything. I have some old philips 87c552 microcontroller robot boards (built along time ago when at university). I have dug them out and was thinking of trying to get them going again.

Just wondered if anyone has had any luck in getting platform io working with the 552 chipset, or is it a case of modifying the generic 8052 platform?

thanks,
James

Cool project! Unfortunately I can’t find any info on

  • SDCC with 87c552
    • like, header file with all special function registers (SFRs), etc.
    • probably means the generic 8052 header will be the closest, or a custom header file
  • an open source programmer for the 87c552
    • only very old product advertisments about a zero-insertion-force socket programmer and a screenshot of what looks like a DOS program
    • also that chip seems to have an only one-time-programmable, but on erasable, EPROM? So you literally burn a chip everytime you program it. This screams to need an emulated environment.