Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:53:42 +1000 From: Robert Lunn Subject: Re: Using the Picstart Plus to program other micro's? >>If that above would be made, every programmer equipped with the >>"final firmware(tm)" Would be able (at least teoretically) to program >>all devices that require equal number or less programmable pins and >>voltages as the programmer hardware actually has. > Of course, a great many commercial programmers have been > released over the years that use this concept. Just have a > lot of pins that you can set to a number of voltages, and then > use a script file to drive the sequence in which particular > pins are set to particular voltages. That what I thought was how the Picstart Plus programmer works as well. Because Mchip claimed that this programmer will even be able to program future realeases of microcontrollers not even on the drawing table yet. So there must be some sort of script file that gets driven in aspecific sequence. And if one knows how that script file works, you can probable write your own drivers for it. Does anybody know how Mchip plans to allow for future microcontrollers on their current Picstart Plus programmer? What I mean is... will it be by means of firmware (17C42) replacement, or will it just be required to get a software update of the driver program? Rgds Werner s -- Werner Terreblanche Tel +27 21 7102251 Fax +27 21 721278 wterreb@plessey.co.za (work) OR werner@aztec.co.za (home)