And if I need to go USB, one of those chips will do the trick nicely = (forgot the number, WvO sells them). Wouter- any plans to add USB to Wisp628 in the future?=20 -----Original Message----- From: Wouter van Ooijen [mailto:wouter@VOTI.NL] Sent: 22 August 2003 13:11 To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: RE: [PIC:] Which programmer for =A350 > >I have used and would highly recommend the Wisp628 > > If you are looking to the future then you should buy a > Programmer with a USB connection. The OP has already bought a Wisp628 kit :) I agree that USB is probably the future, but the price of USB-to-serial converters getting lower all the time so an RS-232- only programmer is sufficiently 'future-proof' for the forseable future. When doing ex-circuit programming USB can have the advantage that no external power is needed, but for ICSP the USB power is probably no adequate, so this disadvantage disappears. Wouter van Ooijen -- ------------------------------------------- Van Ooijen Technische Informatica: www.voti.nl consultancy, development, PICmicro products -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.