Roman Black wrote:
> Hi, yep we're interested! :o)
> Did you menton if the pocket programmer does individual
> serial numbering yet? This would make it perfect for us,
> at the moment we have to edit asm source in mplab,
> recompile, and program each chip with PicStart plus.
> This is a hassle when doing big quantities.
> -Roman

I was just thinking on how to implement this feature. I have not needed
serial numbers yet, so I assume they are stored in the ID registers.

The Pocket's FAT system has a 32 byte header space for each HEX file
stored in EEPROM. I can implement a 16 bit word in this info so that it
is incremented by 1 everytime that particular file is used for
programming. This value will be placed into the ID regs when programmed.

The Pocket can have an extra menu function added to enable/disable the
ID override and a way of editing this value. The serial number will be
reset to 0000h when uploading a file from the PC to the Pocket memory.

Is this what you had in mind?

Here is a gif of the Pocket's PC interface. There is nothing much there
except a way of editing the data file for the PIC chips. The Pocket
actually tells the PC to bring up file load dialogs and such from it's
own menus.

http://www.picnpoke.com/pock.gif

I got most of the 18Cxxx routines working last night, but a new 18Cxxx
that I bought seems to be a dud. My other programmer won't even read
from it. Hopefully the local distributor will change it today.

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Tony

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