Sounds very interesting.  Could you share source and schematic?

Thanks in advance,

-Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Cole [mailto:cole@KENNY.EASYON.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 9:28 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Neat PIC programmer idea


I had to develop a PIC programmer for my company that was compact and
relies very little on controlling software.  What I came up with was to
use a pic that had the smarts to read in a hex file using a serial input
pin, decode the hex file on-the-fly inside the pic, and program the target
pic all at the same time.