On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:59:40 -0500, Picdude wrote:
> Not done yet, but feedback appreciated...
>     http://www.narwani.org/neil/electronics/pic_linux.html
>
> Cheers,
> -Neil.

>From your site:

Simulators/Emulators/Debuggers:
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This is the *big* catch for me when it comes to switching to Linux for
PIC development (and believe me, I'd love to have that option).

I haven't seen anyone yet that has written a emulator or debugger
interface for Linux that allows hardware debugging (like MPLAB or CCS
debugger). Personally, I pend 50% of my PIC development time doing the
hardware/software integration and debugging. A simulator is almost
worthless once it comes to interfacing with real world hardware and
testing my code.

The emulator interface might be difficult as Microchip tends to guard
even the more mundane technical workings (witness PicStart Plus) from
3rd party developers and the world in general. I believe they will
release technical specifications and software protocols under NDA, but
that seems to preclude any sort of open source development.

A debugger would be less problematic as (I believe) the debugger
specifications are available from Microchip. Since a debugger which
uses the hardware debug mode of the newer flash PICs is relatively
straightforward, I have hopes that someone will develop a software
package and possible a debugger pod that's native to Linux.

Matt Pobursky
Maximum Performance Systems

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