Jim Robertson wrote:

> I found it myself a few days ago and have been working with it full on.

Hi Jim,

The Programming Executive (PE) sounds like a great idea to me -- from what I
read so far, I like the direction Microchip is going with this. It's sort of
like having a DLL or firmware API -- with the PE, everyone uses a framework
or common base of (hopefully) tested code and programming devices with the
PE shortens the programming specification development cycle to some degree
and eliminates personal interpretations and implementations of the
programming specification. But it appears that if the PE is missing or needs
to be upgraded the Standard DUT Programming (STDP) Protocol still needs to
be implemented; still a nice system of doing things. Perhaps this system
will be implemented with PICmicros in the future.

Best regards,

Ken Pergola

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