Rick Farmer wrote:
>
>  I just finished reading the 16C87x databook. Very nice part. The one thing
> that makes it stand out is that program memory can be written under program
> control. On top of that a small portion of program memory can be write
> protected. Sounds like a good place to stick a resident bootloader program
> to me.
>
>  It would seem that Microchip designed the chip with this in mind. The next
> question is whether they are going to release a piece of bootloader code. If
> so their web site makes no mention of it. If not I could see writing one
> myself.

I4ve seen a "Technical Brief"  TB0025 at the Microchip Web-Site which
describes a kind of down-loader. Maybe you just need to rework it ... I
didn4t looked at it very close.

Found it in the alpanumerical listing of Applicationnotes.

But I4m very interested in first experiences with the new chip.

Kind regards

        Stefan