Re: PICkit2

Hi Tom,

Xiaofan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Tom Schouten <[email protected]> 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.

Cheers,


Ralph.