My distributor has added a whole bunch of dsPIC stuff to pricelist -
chips, demoboards, software - C compiler, RTOS, V32 soft-modem, filter
design etc. They say Microchip will start shipping the demoboards at the end
of February.
    The cheapest programmer for dsPIC is ICD2.

dsPIC30F5011-20I/PT    TQFP   ~$11
dsPIC30F6014-30I/PF    TQFP   ~$20
dsPIC30F2010-20I/SP    SPDIP ~$6

MPLAB-C for dsPIC ~$950
CMX-RTX Full RTOS ~$3200

     The pricelist is at http://www.chipcad.hu/download/arlista.zip

Djula

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