From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Terhaar-Yonkers Subject: Re: PIC programming question Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 08:04:24 -0500 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E1C21D8.9040200@cisco.com> References: <200301062005.06383.phil@spiderweb.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200301062005.06383.phil@spiderweb.com.au> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Phil Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org Phil, I bought a cheap (hooks up to parallel port) programmer from: http://www.dontronics.com/prod.html It and the PICALL software are like USD$65 assembled. Works with nearly any PIC chip. Also, check out "mplab" which is a free assembly language dev environment available from www.microchip.com. If you are doing a lot of fooling around and testing, buy a couple of PICs that are eeprom based. Erase them with a high-intensity UV light. Cheaper in the long run than the burn once, throw aways. cheers, - Frank Phil wrote: > Hello All, > > I'd to try my hand at PIC programming and the projects that I have in mind are > amateur radio related so I suppose this question is not off topic. > > I have some utilities (gputils) that will create the hex code, however I'm > wondering what other people use to actually program the PIC. > > An Internet search didn't reveal very many programmers for Linux. One > interesting project is called ponyprog2000. The hardware is more complex than > a typical programmer that operates under MS Windows but it's probably more > versatile. The software appears to be easy enough to use. > > Does anyone have a favorite PIC programmer? My only interest at the moment is > to be able to program PIC 16F84 and 16F876 chips. > -- \\\\////\\\\////\\\\\////\\\\\////\\\\////\\\\//// Frank Terhaar-Yonkers W4FTY TRA 8325/L2 Cisco Systems, Inc. NSITE - Pineview Building - RTP 7025 Kit Creek Road PO Box 14987 Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 fty@cisco.com voice(919)392-2101 fx(919)392-4833