Wouter's board I strongly recommend.

John

--- Forrest W Christian <forrestc@imach.com> wrote:

> I've been looking for a good development board to be
> able to do proof of 
> concept designs on.  So far I haven't been able to
> find any which meet 
> my needs - and before I just give up and build one
> myself I figured I'd 
> ask the list.
> 
> Mainly I'm talking simply about a 16f877 (or similar
> - just need a PIC 
> with a reasonable clock speed and most of the
> peripherals - something 
> else is ok) compatible socket on a board with a
> crystal oscillator and a 
> ICD connector with simple connectivity to an RJ11
> jack, and possibly a 
> 7805 or similar.   Push buttons, Pots, LCD, RS232
> transciever, etc. etc. 
> etc. are nice, but a lot of the boards that have
> them have the 
> irritating property that they are hardwired to the
> PIC and require 
> slicing of PCB Traces and careful soldering iron
> work to extract those 
> signals when you need them for something other than
> the board's concept 
> of what they should be used for.  So, if the board
> has those addons, I 
> need them to be easily disconnectable/reconnectable.
> 
> I also need to be able to use this easily with a
> solderless breadboard.  
> A lot of the time I'm reverse engineering something
> this circuit will be 
> working with so I have to be able to be flexible at
> the point in the 
> design this will be used.  This board is going to be
> used during the 
> proof of concept design phase so it has to be able
> to be rapidly 
> changable circuit-wise.   A solder-area isn't what I
> call rapidly 
> changable.  I'd normally just throw the entire PIC
> and everything on the 
> breadboard and not bother, but at 20Mhz, the
> breadboard isn't all that 
> great to get a XTAL to work reliably - and I've had
> issues with the ICD 
> stuff as well.
> 
> I'm assuming someone out there has built something
> like this....  I'm 
> pretty flexible on what the board will/won't do,
> other than the overall 
> concept of something you can actually breadboard a
> fairly large circuit 
> with and that the basics of getting a PIC's clock
> running and ICD need 
> to be taken care of.
> 
> -forrest
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