Hi Keith,

The PSP will do all the 12Cxxx parts.

The PSP is the recognized best full range PICMicro programmer, able to
program the full range of PIC Devices.  Now, I'll probably get a number of
replies to this statement, but I don't believe that there is any other
programmers available that will interface with an IDE (MPLAB) and do the
full range of PIC parts.

Lewis, Tjaart and Darrell:

Tjaart has some good comments and there probably is a good case that the PSP
is busted.  Lewis, did you ever check to see if signals are coming out of
the cable properly?  Maybe the cable is bad; it's a straight through 9 pin
Male to female D-Shell; maybe a conductor is bad.

Darrell; I thought of one other thing that can be done to help insure the
serial port is dedicated to MPLAB and that's to do a read of the serial port
(ie BaseAddr+0) followed by a write/read to the scratchpad register (at
BaseAddr+7) to confirm that MPLAB has allocated the serial port resources in
the operating system.  Other registers can also be read/written to (such as
the "Loop" bit) to make sure the port is allocated.

Obviously, I don't know how you are accessing the port, but they're a couple
of ideas.

myke

>Hi,
>
>I am considering purchasing Picstart Plus but having read the spec in both the
>Maplin and Rapid Electronics catalogues there is no mention of 12Cxxx series
>of Pic's.
>
>Can Picstast Plus program these or not?
>
>The main reason I was considering PSP was because the programmer could
>program "All Devices". Until now I have only toyed with 16C84's and have a
>homebuilt programmer which does the job, but I have already thought of designs
>which need other Pic's to make them work.
>
>Any recommendations for any other programmers that I could build/buy
>
>Thanks a lot
>
>Keith
>http://www.btinternet.com/~krazy.keith
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