On 3/10/06, Vasile Surducan <piclist9@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/10/06, Crist=F3v=E3o Dalla Costa <cdallacosta@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've seen an ICD2 clone which used a 40 pin PIC18 to communicate via USB
> and
> > pass the information to a PIC16 which is the proper ICD2 PIC. I guess
> that
> > short of a PIC18 (which this circuit does not have) or a Cypress chip
> (which
> > aren't through hole) you're stuck with a FTDI bridge which is no better
> than
> > a RS232 connection to the computer since the ICD2 PIC still thinks it's
> > talking to a serial port and is limited to the 57600 bps datarate.
>
> On 486 maybe ?
> 230400 bps is the maximum speed on most P2 computers, and now P2 is
> history.
> The limitation could be from ICD software ?


MPLAB doesn't let the user se the datarate higher than 57600 when using a
serial port. In fact, I'm yet to see any application which uses a higher
datarate since while the computer might handle 1 Mbps it still won't go
through a serial cable.
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