Hi,

   I own PICStart Plus and ICD2. I started with
PICStart Plus. The easiest to program your chips with
however it does not support the new family of chips
like dsPIC and PIC24. ICD2 is cheaper and is able to
support "programming" and "debugging" your chip
together. ICD2 can also be used together with UPM
module which makes it the same with PICSTART Plus. I
don own the UPM module but just wire wrap it to the
chip to program and run the chip immediately. ICD2
saves time in development time. ICD2 has it's quirks
like power cycle to get it working again but that it
not a real issue once you operate it the WAY it wants
to be operated...


John

--- Richard Youden <r.youden@mac.com> wrote:

> 
> OK, I have just found this...
> 
>
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en010020&part=DV003001
> 
> It looks OK to me but I have a few questions.
> 
> 1. Has anyone used this before, esecially the
> software?
> 2. The devboard looks purely like a programming
> board to me or is that just
> a bad photo.
> 3. It says that it only connects via RS232 which I
> ditched on my computer
> long ago, will this work with a USB to serial
> adaptor?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Richard
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