Re: PICkit2

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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