Yes, you can program it with the PicStart+ (assuming your firmware version
supports it).

And I don't know about the PICDEM-1.

Calvin

-----Original Message-----
From: MEvans1027 <MEvans1027@AOL.COM>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Jueves 9 de Abril de 1998 11:52 PM
Subject: What need to use 12C508?


>    I've been using 16C54 and 16C71 chips for "zero power" applications for
a
>couple of years
>now; writing code with MPASM, programming with PICSTART Plus, and testing
with
>PICDEM-1.
>It all works so well that I haven't felt the need for either simulator or
>emulator.
>    But now I want to try one of the super-cheap 8-pinners, the 12C508.
Talk
>here on the
>PICLIST tells me that (for example) it may be cheaper (and better!) than a
555
>with all the
>associated "glue".
>    I know I could read the literature, or ask Microchip, but I'm coming to
>the horse's mouth -- can
>I program it on PICSTART Plus, and test it on PICDEM-1?  If not, what?
>    -- Mel Evans    mevans1027@aol.com
>