gnupic: Re: [gnupic] PICkit2
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] PICkit2
From:
Tom Schouten ####@####.####
Date:
3 Sep 2008 22:05:43 -0000
Message-Id: <20080903220412.GA8691@zzz.i>
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 08:10:51AM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Xiaofan wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Tom Schouten ####@####.#### wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > The Microchip licenses (for the firmware and pk2cmd source) only allow
> > PICkit 2 to be used with Microchip product (PIC, EEProms, etc).
>
> To avoid this restriction, you may want to consider the USBprog.
>
> http://www.embedded-projects.net/index.php?page_id=165
> http://shop.embedded-projects.net/product_info.php?info=p6_usbprog-v3-0--adaptor-preassembled-.html
>
> The firmware and hardware design is all open source IIRC. The idea is
> that different firmware downloads give the hardware different
> functionality. Here's a list.
>
> http://www.embedded-projects.net/index.php?page_id=168
>
> If it's up to date, it looks like they may welcome contributions on the
> PIC programming side.
>
interesting.
I wonder.. If one makes a PICkit firmware clone, porting it to the AVR on
the USBprog, can the microchip .dat file (which contains software in the
form of uploadable scripts) and pk2cmd still be used? I don't see a problem
since it would still only be used to program Microchip devices.. Any lawyers
on this list?
