gnupic: love this bootloader (for pic16f/18f)
Subject:
love this bootloader (for pic16f/18f)
From:
David McNab ####@####.####
Date:
19 Jan 2005 05:15:00 +0000
Message-Id: <41EDECCA.5010602@rebirthing.co.nz>
Hi,
My search for pic18fxxx-compatible bootloaders turned up this particular
little gem - 'Tiny PIC Bootloader':
http://www.ac.ugal.ro/staff/ckiku/software/picbootloader.htm
Fastest bootloader I've seen, and the damn thing uses just 100 words
(or, to 18fxxx folks, 200 bytes) of program memory.
Only catch is that the host downloading client is a windows prog with no
source code. It works fine on windows and on linux via wine, but still
suffers the inability to be driven purely via command line args (which
to any linux user, will feel lame).
I got around the limitation by hacking up a command-line python prog to
replace it (which I can share if people want - note that it's 18fxx2-only).
I do recommend Tiny PIC Bootloader to anyone who uses bootloaders. Why
put up with larger footprints and slower downloads?
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Cheers
David
