gnupic: Thread: DSPic

 Chaps, is there support for the DSPic in gpsim? I'm very interested in play around with this device soon. Nigel.

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Nigel Murphy wrote:

>  Chaps, is there support for the DSPic in gpsim? I'm very interested
> in play around with this device soon. Nigel.

I'm afraid not.

Is the dsPic even availble yet? Last I checked I couldn't find a completed
data sheet containing the instruction set.

Scott

 I don't know if DSPic devices are ready, but they are on the microchip web site, with full data sheets (Including instruction sets). But It's still advanced information, so I guess the parts are not ready as yet.

 Regards Nigel.

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On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Nigel Murphy wrote:

>  Chaps, is there support for the DSPic in gpsim? I'm very interested
> in play around with this device soon. Nigel.

I'm afraid not.

Is the dsPic even availble yet? Last I checked I couldn't find a completed
data sheet containing the instruction set.

Scott


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Scott Dattalo wrote:
> 
> Is the dsPic even availble yet? Last I checked I couldn't find a completed
> data sheet containing the instruction set.

No, they're not available yet. There aren't any "buy" links on the 
Microchip site, and none of the distributors have any. They're still in 
"Real Soon Now" state, which means that we may see them anywhere from 
next week to never.

"Mark J. Dulcey" writes:
> Scott Dattalo wrote:
> > 
> > Is the dsPic even availble yet? Last I checked I couldn't find a completed
> > data sheet containing the instruction set.
> 
> No, they're not available yet. There aren't any "buy" links on the 
> Microchip site, and none of the distributors have any. They're still in 
> "Real Soon Now" state, which means that we may see them anywhere from 
> next week to never.

A traveling Microchip factory rep was in my neck of the woods recently 
and we had a long talk. I wouldn't expect the DSPic to be available 
from Digikey for another year. If you are a glutton for punishment then 
you might be able to talk your way into being an alpha tester for later 
this year.

Microchip appears to be going thru several generations of the DSPic 
design and is willing to gather what they know, rip everything up and 
create another generation to make it better before mass production.

The delay is they have gone thru more generations than they originally 
expected would be needed. The issue hasn't been, "the tools and silicon 
didn't work."

Other interesting news (to me at least) was USB interface for the 
ICE-4000. And maybe even the ICE-2000. And maybe he said a USB ICD as 
well.

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Is anyone looking at the MicroChip's new dsPIC processors for any designs? 
Or asked differently, how important is it to add support for the dsPIC 
processors in gputils and gpsim?

Scott

From reading the piclist list there is a lot of interest (and fair bit of
dissatisfaction at such long delay in microchip bring the device to market).
If it is anything to go by though, there is a lot of interest in dsPIC and
having the support for that device family would be a definite bonus.

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> Is anyone looking at the MicroChip's new dsPIC processors for any designs?
> Or asked differently, how important is it to add support for the dsPIC
> processors in gputils and gpsim?
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> Scott
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Scott Dattalo wrote:

>Is anyone looking at the MicroChip's new dsPIC processors for any designs? 
>Or asked differently, how important is it to add support for the dsPIC 
>processors in gputils and gpsim?
>
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I'm VERY interested with dsPIC, but up to this time I was unable to 
obtain even a few samples for my students' lab :-(.
Certainly when available they will be very useful for low-end and 
mid-class DSP applications. I'd like to use them in a few didactical 
designs for my students, or even some serious biomedical data 
acquisition applications.
   
Wojtek Zabolotny