----- Original Message ----- From: "William Chops Westfield" To: Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [PIC]:a newbie mpasm question > In all, it's a pretty neat set of parts. While marketed as an extremely low > power part, there isn't really anything so odd about the part to eliminate > its use in more general purpose applications. I hope the low end flash > parts end up with some "hobbyist" availability... > The biggest problem is the lack of a low cost debugger-emulator. The only package available is the HiTex emulator and the IAR C compiler. (well, there are some others, but just try getting info on them...) In my opinion, one of the things that got Microchip off the ground was the Parallax debugger. It's the same principle as Turbo Pascal; get a good cheap product into a lot of people's hands and you'll sell lots of 'em. I was thinking of trying to make something like RomZap for the '325 part. Just something to get into the chip and find out what's going on inside. Comments? Ideas? Mark -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu