On Sunday, Nov 30, 2003, at 11:35 US/Pacific, Tim ODriscoll wrote:

>
> Microchip sell a "Flash starter kit" which seems to use the 16C745 to
> hook
> directly to the USB port, but it only supports 20pin devices,

Actually, there are no 20pin PICs.  The PICKit1 only supports the 8 and
14 pin flash devices, making it pretty limitted.

In theory,  ICSP is ICSP, and a couple jumper wires from the PICKit1 to
another socket ought to allow you to program other PICS, given
appropriate software.  I haven't looked at the PICKit1 software source
yet to see whether the software that needs changed is in the 16C745 or
in the PC (if it's in the PC, the linux version of code is probably a
fine starting point.  There IS source code and protocol descriptions
included with the PICKit1...

> . There's also some linux software for it here:
>
> http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/users/olawlor/projects/2003/microchip/
>
Thanks.  I have a PICKit1, and a Mac, and was hoping that somewhere out
there there would be a starting point that was further along than
"nothing."  I hadn't found this one...

BillW

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