Electronic Components friends do generally know what burner, but there are still a lot of new friends do not know what is writer, because there is not the same in different places, it is called. Today article casually say something. Burner in the mainland is called programmer. Because the development of the semiconductor industry in Taiwan early to the mainland, the customer why call it "programming" because now the English called PROGRAMMER, the English name of the general designer of the same name written software programs, so called "Programmer .
　　The writer is actually a programmable integrated circuit write data tools, writer mainly MCU (including embedded) / memory (including BIOS) chip programming like (or brush writing).
　　Burner can be divided into universal type burner in function, mass-produced burner, special type burner. Dedicated burner lowest price for chip type less suitable to a particular class or a dedicated chip programming needs, for example, requires only PIC series programming. Full function can cover almost universal Usually (but not all) all current chip to be programmed, due to design problems, high cost, limited the sales price of the final high, suitable for the needs of a variety of chip programming.