liam wrote :

> I was given the impression after reading some web pages
> that the 16F628 did have a hardware interface... a did
> the 16F877. I might look into the chip model again then.

You have been reading the wrong pages :-)
The "parametric search" at www.microchip.com is quite nice.

> > > In my experiance with PIC's I have used a
> > > graphical assembler programming environment
> > 
> > Which ?
> 
> Its the product of a small Adelaide company. The easyest way to
> describe it is similar to the lego progamming system...

I see. I was just asking since even MPLAB could be called a
"graphical assembler programming environment", after all, is has
a GUI (graphical user interface), right ? :-) :-)

> Yeah, I am looking at keeping this hardware but I would like some
> software to go with it. I figure any software that outputs as hex
> would do and then I can use icProg.

I don't know of *any* delvelopment tool that does *not*
output a HEX file as it's final result. Now, there are some
different HEX file formats, and there might be combinations
of tools that don't support the same HEX file format.

Regards,
Jan-Erik.



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