gnupic: Re: [gnupic] PICkit2
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] PICkit2
From:
Jean-Daniel Nicoud ####@####.####
Date:
29 Aug 2008 07:00:39 -0000
Message-Id: <48B79EC5.4070001@didel.com>
Hello Xiaofan
>> The Microchip licenses (for the firmware and pk2cmd source) only
allow PICkit 2 to be used with Microchip product (PIC, EEProms, etc).
As I read the Readme of Pickit2, I have the feeling the soft could be
completely rewritten and downloaded for different processors. Did you
saw a sentence that restricts the use of the hardware?
>> The PICkit2 seems like an interesting hw platform to build a universal
>> device programmer. Is there anyone working on this? Are there problems
>> that make it still too PIC-specific?
There is a good processor inside the Pickit2. They added the UART
interface and Logic analyser. Doing the AVR and other's microcontroller
programming is I guess only a software problem.
I like the Pickit2 USB programmer, cheap and it can be used as an
UART-USB interface when it has finished its work of programming your Hex
file. It encouraged me to develop a set of boards that makes both
learning and development more easy. Have a look to http://www.didel.com/
All the best. JD
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