gnupic: Re: [gnupic] Re: What's the PIC-chip type supply status ?
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] Re: What's the PIC-chip type supply status ?
From:
Robert Pearce ####@####.####
Date:
31 Jul 2008 20:49:14 -0000
Message-Id: <20080731214812.b4479139.rob@bdt-home.demon.co.uk>
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:02:52 +0200 Peter wrote:
>
> Since your application used the 16C84 I think you could find a modern
> day replacement and implement your application on it with only little
> effort, certainly without any training course.
Absolutely!
I recently had an email enquiry from someone who had found http://lintrain.sourceforge.net and wanted to do something similar. The command station in that project was designed with a PIC16C54, it's so old, and the chap wondered whether it was at all possible to re-design it for a 16F628, because he had some.
That answer : no hardware change, three lines of code change, and most of those were moving the reset vector because it had gone from a 12-bit core to a 14-bit core.
So yes, on the whole, moving to the more recent PIC should present very little difficulty.
