I would strongly consider getting the ICD for development programming.

You just need a 6-pin telco jack on your target board (or handwire a short
piece of satin ending in a 6-pin plug). This gives you the ability to
program the chip, and to debug the code.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems
(contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
software)

----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Robertson <ken@QGYEN.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:00 PM
Subject: [OT]: Recommendations for programmer and compiler


> Hello,
>
> I am pretty new to PIC programming and I'm currently looking at various
> programmers and compilers.  I know I'm going to be using the 16F877, and
the
> key things I'll be using it with is RS-232 and a Ethernet controller
(either
> Crystal or SMSC's).
>
> I'm thinking of getting the EPIC programmer with the 40-pin adapter for
the
> 16F877.  Does the adapter only support DIP though?
>
> Also, I'm leaning towards the CCS C compiler.  I can read asm, but dread
> writing it.  And I'm not really used to Basic either, so I'm most
> comfortable with the C syntax, since I already know it thoroughly.
>
> Anyone have any opinions on these, or suggestions?  I haven't heard too
much
> about the CCS compiler, so that it what I am most unsure about.  I am
mainly
> asking to make sure that everything is compatible and I'm not about to
blow
> all this money on something that won't work.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ken
>
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