Hello, look at www.elnec.com I use their SmartProg, it is excellent production quality programmer. More info/experience on request. Regards, Imre +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity | | to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or | | privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or | | other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this | | information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient | | is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the | | sender and delete the material from any computer. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Barry Gershenfeld wrote: > For the last few years, my ICD-1 (now ICD-2) and I > have been the "production programmer" for all the > PIC's that we use. But the numbers are increasing > and we have a need to let the production techs > program their own stock. I have hesitated handing > this sort of thing over because the procedures > involving the ICD-2 and MPLAB can get quite involved-- > MPLAB is a development environment. I also > suspect that an ICD-2 programming run does not exactly > yield a production-quality part. > > What I'm looking for is something that will take a HEX > file--and any other necessry info and not change it > (MPLAB likes to turn Debug mode back on and other > antics) and program the device via ICSP (In-circuit > serial programming). Ideally it would > be upgradeable as Microchip invents new parts. Maybe > Microchip makes what we need. > > It doesn't have to be zero cost, either. It does > have to be reliable and simple. > > Barry > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body