On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Adi Linden wrote:

> What I found so far is the PICC Lite but it has some limitations on
> some of the parts. The regular PICC is way out of my budget. The CCS
> compilers are reasonably prices but I need 2 to support the 12F and
> 16F parts.

Not for what I consider to be useful 12x parts, like the 12F6xx and
12C[e]67x parts.  They are 14-bit core and are supported by PCM.  Only the
12-bit core parts are not, like the 12C5xx.  I don't know why Microchip
didn't call those 16x parts.  Check http://www.ccsinfo.com/devices.html
for a list of what's supported by which compiler.

For what it's worth, I have been using CCS for about 3 years now and am
still very happy with it.  I use it for both hobby and commercial
projects.  As with any compiler you may run into an occasional bug, but
CCS support and the online forum have both been very good.  I think I have
had to find compiler bugs maybe two or three times total, and they were
pretty easy to spot and code around.  CCS even upgraded me for free the
last time even though I had let the support lapse, since the bug was fixed
in a later version.

Dale
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