Elnec s.r.o.

Company type	Private
Industry	Electronics, Technology
Founded	1991
Headquarters	Presov , Slovakia, European Union
Products	Device programmers
Website	Elnec.com

Elnec is a Slovak manufacturer of device programming systems for programmable integrated circuits.^[1]

History

Since its founding in 1991, the company has been oriented towards developing and manufacturing developer tools like device programmers, emulators, simulators and logic analyzers.^[2]

Core business of the company today is only the development and manufacture of equipment that transfers data into various non-volatile semiconductor devices. These devices can be sorted into three categories: Microcontroller, Flash Memory, Programmable Logic Devices.

Most of Elnec device programmers can be referred as universal^[3][4] due to support of many programmable devices from different semiconductor companies as Microchip, STMicroelectronics, EM microelectronics, etc.

Elnec’s products are sold also under ODM names as B&K Precision, Dataman^[5] or Minato.

One of company's competitors is Data I/O.

Current products

Elnec production can be divided into groups:

• Multiprogramming systems (Production programmers) - Used for programming devices in high volumes by Electronics manufacturers and programming centers.

• Universal programmers - Designed for individual users (new electronics products development, chip tuning) and small manufacturers of electronics.
• Specialized programmers - Products specialized for programming specific programmable devices groups (families): EPROM, EEPROM, MCU, Flash, etc.
• Programming adapters - Programmable devices could be bought in different package types:SSOP, SOIC, PLCC, QFN, BGA, etc. Programming Adapters are used to convert a pinout of selected programmable device package into interface used by programmer. Elnec’s programmers use DIL interface as a standard.