improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources xeltek news newspapers books scholar jstor free images january 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . january 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message xeltek inc. type private industry electronics technology founded 1985 founder soonam kim headquarters sunnyvale california united states products device programmers website xeltek.com xeltek is an american developer and manufacturer of device programming systems for programmable integrated circuits headquartered in silicon valley california . 1 the main manufacturing facilities of the company are located in nanjing china and a smaller branch is located in seoul south korea to support with r & d projects . 2 history edit initially the company was founded in south korea in 1985 by soonam kim under the name of zeus computer . in 1991 the company moved to silicon valley california and changed its name to xeltek . the first programmer device that was manufactured by the company was unipro . with the launch of superpro 2000 the company introduced stand alone programming to the universal programmer industry in the year of 2000 . stand alone programming is an application that allows the user to compile supported ic devices on a pc independent platform through the help of an lcd screen that is mounted on a programming unit . 3 xeltek has been business partners with digi key since december 2013 4 and newark since may 2014 . 5 product range edit today many programmable electronic devices are commonly categorized as flash memory microcontrollers and programmable logic devices . most of the device programmers from xeltek are referred as universal programmers due to the support of many programmable devices . the company s products can be categorized as below 6 7 in circuit in system programmers isp a technique where a programmable device is configured after it is placed in a circuit board . production programmers programmers for high volume production programming as electronics manufacturers and programming centers . universal programmers single site programmers for developers small manufacturers universities and personal use . specialized programmers single site programmers for a wide variety of users from hobbyists to professionals . automated programmers designed for manufacturing large scale electronics . it uses an industrial personal computer with control card inside servo system and vision system mode for chip placement programming and packaging programmable devices automatically . programming adapters universal adapters are designed to support the latest surface mount devices for every package type . references edit xeltek inc. em microelectronic . www.emmicroelectronic.com . retrieved 2016 01 07 . xeltek inc. . companies.globalmarket.com . retrieved 2016 01 11 . use the ate port to control isp programmers . electronic component news . retrieved 2016 01 11 . the foundation of a successful business partnership between digikey and xeltek . signal processing design . retrieved 2016 02 04 . a prosperous partnership xeltek & newark element14 . www.element14.com . retrieved 2016 02 04 . universal programmer . xeltek . retrieved 2016 01 11 . lewin a. r. w. edwards 2003 . embedded system design on a shoestring achieving high performance with a limited budget . newnes . pp. 223 . isbn 978 0 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