USB seems reasonable, but how about just supplying a PCMCIA port.  Then you
could have your choice of serial, network, USB, firewire, or even wireless
LAN?

Is there a way to redirect current PIC software that only looks for serial
ports to some other type of connection without rewriting the software?
Maybe a custom device driver to create a virtual com port to any type of
connection?

Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: XChet [mailto:xchet@YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 12:06 AM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: [PIC]:USB PIC Programmer


As the serial ports and parallel ports become leagacy
devices they have been removed from the new
motherboards. Intel and Microsoft have taken this
decision to remove ISA bus, serial ports, printer port
and several other legacy devices from their
motherboards designs.

Is anyone interested in designing a PIC programmer
using USB? I have done some research and came up with
some ideas.

Thanks.

=====
Thanks,

XChet

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