gnupic: Re: [gnupic] gnupic and PIC Programmer and Test Bed Kit (Australia)
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Re: [gnupic] gnupic and PIC Programmer and Test Bed Kit (Australia)
From:
Rick Altherr ####@####.####
Date:
16 Jun 2005 00:24:35 +0100
Message-Id: <94E3F504-DBF7-4AFC-8402-FADE8CF828C6@kc8apf.net>
On Jun 15, 2005, at 6:19 AM, Stuart Woolford wrote:
>
> On 15/06/2005, at 7:27 PM, Stuart Woolford wrote:
>
>
>> Hello,
>> This is my first post to the list.
>> I live in Australia, and am about to begin exploring pic
>> programming (namely the pic16f84/a, which I guess is a good one
>> for beginners? My main purpose with this project is to construct
>> midi input devices). I have been looking at various pic
>> programming beds, and I am thinking that maybe the Silicon Chip
>> PIC Programmer and testbed (available from Dick Smith Electronics
>> (http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/
>> 42a7f8320937f6462740c0a87f9c06fa/Product/View/K3603) is probably
>> the way to go. Has any one else had any experience with this
>> programmer (either in Australia or elsewhere), and can they tell
>> me wether I may program a pic16f84 with this bed in conjunction
>> with the gnupic/gpasm tools? Is the choice of a pic bed and the
>> compiler tools fairly arbitrary, as long as they can both do the
>> same microcontroller? Thank you very much for your time, and I
>> apologise in advance if theses questions aren't for this list, or
>> my terminology is a bit out of whack (I'm very new!).
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Stuart
>>
>
> I apologise,
> I forgot to mention that I am on os X 10.3.9, but should be
> upgrading to 10.4 in the near future.
> Thanks again,
> Stuart.
>
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Just a few notes for doing development on OS X.
You will need a USB programmer or a good USB->serial adapter. I
highly recommend FTDI-based serial adapters. FTDI provides pretty
good quality drivers for the adapters.
My experience has been mostly with the Kits 'R Us Kit 150. It
supports a large number of PIC devices and I have written software to
use it under OSX (search the list archives for pp). You can most
likely use any other linux programmer that works over serial or USB.
I haven't used a C compiler, but gpasm/gplink are very nice to use
and work perfectly on OSX.
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