[time-nuts] FE-5680 Linux command line tool

[Tom Wimmenhove]

I recently came across a thread on this list about undocumented FE5680
commands. I have been using a little linux command line tool I wrote years
ago for tuning the unit and decided to add these commands to it.
Since this mailing list was the place I found the unit (someone linked to
an ebay seller) I figured I' d join the list and throw it on here :)
http://www.tomwimmenhove.com/otherstuff/fe5680-0.2.tgz

Now, the bad news. I had my unit running overnight while logging the serial
command output that reads the ADC, and in the morning it was no longer
locked. The 10MHz signal disappears about 5 seconds after power-on, and
programmed offset was somehow reset to zero (it had been set to -645). So
it appears as if the internal EEPROM has been corrupted.
I read a post from Elio Corbolante where he posted EEPROM and firmware
dumps. Anyone have any idea on how to re-write this firmware back into the
EEPROM by hand (would this be possible through JTAG, or do I actually have
to solder the chip out of there? :) ) Or maybe there's someone willing to
sell their broken unit I could take the chip out of?

Regards,
Tom