FORTE is a very fast and flexible High-Speed USB In-Circuit Serial programmer for a wide range of popular components - microcontrollers, serial EEPROM and Flash memory chips, CPLDs and others.

FORTE is equipped with an effective over-curent and over-voltage protection. The programmer is powered from USB and it is able to provide the supply voltage for the programmed device in range from 1.8 to 5.5 V or it can work with the externally powered target application. Software for FORTE works under Windows and Linux.

Features

• Very fast programmer (30 MHz out, 15 MHz in/out)
• Controlled and powered by USB 2.0 High Speed (480 Mbps)
• Embedded processor for fast execution of complex operations
• Both synchronous and asynchronous programming algorithms supported, JTAG support
• Supported voltage range 1.8 to 5.5 V without any additional accessories
• Able to supply the voltage from 1.8 to 5.5 V to the external target application
• Programming interface offers 8 inputs/outputs with individually configurable pull-up/down resistors
• Built-in fast hardware I/O protection which works independently on the PC software
• Overcurrent protection on supply and programming voltage sources
• VDD pin overvoltage protection 
• GO button makes repetitive operations easy and quick
• Wide range of supported devices, new software versions with new devices support are freely available from ASIX website
• RoHS compliant
• Command line and Windows messages support
• Works under Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10 (both 32 and 64 bit versions) and Linux (using Wine)

FORTE supports wide range of devices:

• 32-bit ARM-based MCUs by various vendors
  For example ATSAM3N4A, ATSAMD20E18A, AT91SAM7SE512, LPC11E14, LPC810, STM32F427IG, ...
• Microchip PIC^®, dsPIC/PIC24^® and PIC32^® MCUs
  Serially programmable (all Flash and EEPROM parts).
   
• Atmel AVR^®, ATxmega, AVR32 and 8051 architecture MCUs
  For example ATtiny12, AT90S8535, ATmega128, ATxmega32D4, AT32UC3A1256, AT89S51, ...
• Texas Instruments MSP430^® and CC430^® MCUs
  (Including Security Fuse blowing and Bootstrap loader memory programming).
   
• Chipcon (now Texas Instruments) CCxxxx^® MCUs
   
• Dallas/Maxim^® 1-Wire
  1-Wire devices (memories: DS24xx, 25xx, 28xx).
   
• Cypress PSoC^® MCUs
  CY8U21xx, CY8U24xx and CY8U27xx.
• Silicon Labs EFM8 and C8051 MCUs
  For example EFM8BB22F16, EFM8SB10F8, C8051F326, C8051F968, ...
• ST STM8 MCUs
  STM8S, STM8L and STM8A - e.g. STM8S207R8, STM8L152C4, ...
• Components with JTAG interface
  - types which can be programmed using SVF or XSVF file - for example
  • CPLDs - Xilinx (XC95xx, CoolRunner, ...), Altera, Lattice and others
  • FPGA configuration Flash PROMs - Xilinx (XC18Vxx, XCFxxS)
  • Atmel ATmega
• Serial EEPROM and Flash memories
  • I²C (24LCxx)
  • Microwire (93LCxx)
  • SPI EEPROM (25Cxx)
  • SPI Flash EPROM (M25Pxx, M45PExx, ...)
  • UNI/O EEPROM (11AAxxx, 11LCxxx)