>> The "programmer" processor should be soldered in, and not in a socket.

>You get more flexibility if it's socketed. For example if someone need to
>do near exclusive 18F development. it would only be the cost of swapping
the
>parts.

well I figure this is the way to "disappear" the "programmer" and make it a
development unit. I thought that there was some consensus on disappearing
the programming function. This then means that there is a programmer on the
board which can never be touched by the user, so bootstrapping up from
nothing is never a problem. I envisaged a surface mount 16F876 for this
function, a bit like the ICD. Wether it would work as an ICD for an 18Fxxx
series chip I do not know, maybe the answer is to see what is required for
that and check if it is backward compatible to the 16F87x series.

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