At 12:22 PM 9/3/99 -0700, you wrote: >I'm working on a project where the target board is tiny, using surface >mount parts (including the PIC in a TQFP). But of course I need to >reprogram the PIC umpteen times during development. What's the usual >strategy here? It's impractical to breadboard this project so that I >could use a windowed part, but of course I don't want to throw away a PIC >every time I need to fix a firmware bug, not to mention removing and >replacing the part from the board. > >I suppose the ideal solution would be an ICE, but I can't afford it. >Maybe some sort of adapter to use the windowed part? Thats how we do it--use an adapter from the folks in las Vegas-- small piece with solder pads solders to the board and has pins sticking up that plug into another board that takes dip windowed parts. Mucho $$ for the adapter (150 or so) but it works really well. If there is volume--see if you can't borrow an ICE from your local pic rep. Kelly William K. Borsum, P.E. -- OEM Dataloggers and Instrumentation Systems &