Compatible USB Programmer and Software for AT89C2051 Microcontroller

Hello

Can someone help please, what programmer do i need to program the AT89C2051 ?

I have a few USB type programmers, such as USBASP / AVR ISP types, but another issue is finding software to program the micro in question.
Appreciate any help

_Rich_

Rich - the TL866A programmer supports the AT89C2051 - it is in the device list here  on page 8.You can find these programmers on Ebay, or Elektor have them here.The AT89C2051 data sheet is hereIt is an 8051 compatible so anything that can write for that should workThere's a youtube video on programming them using the TL866A hereThey are using Keil software (http://www.keil.com) and they have C compilers and assemblers for 8051 variants including the AT89C2051.  It seems they have Lite / Evaluation products that may be free (though limited).I'm at work so no time for more and my epxerience here is very limited - any 8051 deovtees out there know more?

I agree with David these are great programmers.I have found them to be a tad hard (or impossible) to set up on Windows 10 but thats why I keep a Windows 7 64bit machine on my electronic development bench.I can say that there are a number of Articles on the web which show you how to upgrade a TL866 to a TL866A which is how my TL866 became an A version .There are a number of very old roms that it will not read mainly due to the high power required to activate these old roms.  Which is why I still keep my old and very bulky and heavy Needham's SA-20 Eprom programmer,  in  use.Going this route  (TL866) as long as you can assemble your code to a HEX or a Binary file for the device, programming is easy.Atmel Studio is free to use and is not code sized limited but does have a very heavy footprint on you computers hard drive.You could also code this in the OshonSoft Basic  type language that compiles  to native Atmel machine code.This is available as an evaluation programme and is ridiculous cheap to buy a full version of. It also has an excellent emulator.Another Basic compiler with an evaluation option is BASCOM this is excellent and supports the USBASP / AVR ISP types.If you want to programme in Pascal then AVR-Co  or Micro Pascal both offer compilers that will handle 4K of compiled code for the evaluation version.Quite happy to help on this if you need more info.

@ Conrad Mannering - thanks for that.  I did read somewhere that Atmel Studio only does AVRs (the AT89C2051  is an 8051 compatible, not an AVR), but this was a bit old and this may have changed, can you confirm?  I am a bit out of my depth here.  Thanks / David

Whops I got my chips miss matched there for a bit, Thanks David.However a quick look on AVR_Freaks gave me this comment to a similar question on the subject"I used to use the 89C2051 a lot, until someone pointed out to me that the AVR AT90S2313 had exactly the same pinout and was a hardware drop-in, except for the reset polarity. It took me less than a day to convert my code to AVR and I've never been tempted to go back. The AVR is at least ten times faster and the tool set is ... well, there isn't any equivalent for 8051 family. The ATtiny2313 is an even better fit because it doesn't need an external reset, so it will drop right in to any existing 2051 PCB with no changes at all. It's also quite a lot cheaper than the 89C2051."You can vist the Keil site which has a large amount of detail on this chip 89C2051 and their support with programmers supported.Link to keilLink to Microchip/Atmel 8051 resources
I tend to think the Atmel parts above do just as good a job but thats just Crusty not moving out of his comfort zone.

Thank you for the help guys.Ive just ordered the TL866A from Ebay, ive only just ordered a PicKit3 as i couldn't program certain PIC's with the Pickit2 i already had. Now i see the TL866a supports PIC chips via ICSP.Ill also do more reading.
Again thanks..._Rich_