gnupic: Re: [gnupic] PICkit2
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] PICkit2
From:
Tom Schouten ####@####.####
Date:
4 Sep 2008 13:07:51 -0000
Message-Id: <20080904130611.GA8507@zzz.i>
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 05:49:07PM +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Tom Schouten ####@####.#### wrote:
> >> I do not know of any restricts on the hardware side. However, it would
> >> be a lot of work to rewrite the firmware and host software.
> >
> > I didn't look at the scripts in the .dat yet, but if they don't use any
> > hard-to-port opcodes (like direct access to the SFRs on the PK2) it should
> > not be so incredibly difficult to reuse the scripts and implement just
> > what is necessary for a certain range of chips. i'm thinking the USBprog
> > AVR here.. and thinking (dreaming) it might be an interesting excercise for
> > a portable Staapl application, targeting PIC18 and AVR).
>
> Many scripts are specifically for PIC programming. You can get a
> much detailed output of the content of the dat file by running
> Jeff's software dat2text which outputs text file with info about
> all families, devices, and scripts in Microchip's PK2DeviceFile.dat file.
> http://home.pacbell.net/theposts/picmicro/
I mean more specifically, whether the .dat file contains instructions for the pk2
such as 'PEEK_SFR , which on quick inspection doesn't seem to be the case. The
essential scripts are really straightforward, and use only a couple of pk2 opcodes.
