Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> I tend to agree that PICkit 2 is not a very robust circuit. However I
> do
> not agree that it is a quick and dirty version even though it is of
> low price. Itself is not a development board. The LPC demo board can
> be sold
> as a bundle with PICkit 2. PICkit 1 is a programmer cum development
> board.

Now that you mention this, I may have gotten PICKit 1 and 2 confused.

> Take note that EasyUSB may well be trademarked (Antec EasyUSB).

Well I can probably come up with another name.  EasyUSB came from EasyProg
and USB.  Oh well.

> I remember
> it will be sold at more than US$100 retail.

I've got a handle on bare parts cost.  Don't know about labor and other
costs yet, but I expect it will be well under $100.

> Without Microchip releasing the on-chip debug protocol of 18F and
> dsPIC
> and the ICD2-MPLAB communication API, this will be hard to do.

I have NDA and access to this.


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