----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Ammerman > At the Master's it was implied (strongly) that several vendors are working > on tools for the dsPIC. Nice. > At the masters mChip gave those of us that took this class two thick books > on the dsPIC architecture, including detail right down to the instruction > encoding (warning: this is preliminary...). > > But don't hold your breath to get one of these chips in your hands... it'll > be a bit yet. Would you guess a month, 3, 6 or a year? How about MPLAB 6? Will the PIC Start Plus be able to program them, assuming that it needs a firmware upgrade to do so? Jeff -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics