> I've often though about a serial only in circuit universal programmer.
> Something that could be used for production as well as
> development. The hardware would be simpler than a full 48pin
> universal porgrammer. You would need only half a dozen or so lines
> like CLK,DATA_IN,DATA_OUT,RESET, /RESET,+5V, GND etc.
> The software part would probably be no less a task though. The
> physical connection could be a socket, like on the MPLAB ICD,
> connecting to custom cables for ICSP.

WISP does that, but only for a few PICs and the design is limited to PICs
that need only a few uA on MCLR. I don't feel the urge to extend WIPS beyond
the flash/eeprom PICs because for a JW the chip must be taken out of the
circuit anyway, so why bother iwth ICSP?

Wouter

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