Cypress Impulse3 CY3500 AKA Data IO Chiplab Programmer.
Seen this On FeeBay and Well Just had to investigate it in person.
I made a Fair Offer… And the Ebay Seller Accepted.
The ChipLab Arrived (Unboxing)
Initial Testing.
This Chiplab has a Defective Socket Board.. Corrosion. (Appears to be Urin)
Teardown:
I did find another Teardown (Some Photos) And More Info On the Chiplab Here. I may post my photo not sure!
My Teardown Video:
This Unit has a lot more corrosion then i expected and I spent hours and hours fixing corroded vias unsure if I will be unable to save this unit 🙁 So far I have not been successful and figured to many hours spent already fixing the corroded vias and traces and Not knowing if the waveform board was working or not so placed the chip lab on the back burner for another day.
I still get an Error… Base/Adapter Relays
November 2025
A local friend loaned me his chiplab I used his Adapter/Socket baord and got Pass so my the waveform board is functional, so the base/adapter/relays error is in the socket board I prob missed a corroded via or trace.
Dec 6th 2025
The Eevblog User Puteketeke did some reverse engineering and has started to generate the schematics. EEVBlog Chiplabs Reversing Post.
Archive of the Data I/O ChipLab Schematics.
Component Placement Waveform Board
He did an Awesome Job… I will give my units socket board a second look using this info.
Last Updated on December 7, 2025 by Steven Rhine