peter green wrote: > The picsquirt is a simple cheap usb pic programmer designed by me (peter m > green,plugwash) it was built at the request of one of my lecturers to the > following requirements > > 1: program the 18F452 and 18F252 (as that is what the uni tended to use) and > the usb pics (so one PICSQUIRT could be used to program another) > 2: use USB (since paralell and serial are fast dissapearing) > 3: be cheap in terms of parts cost. > 4: be constructable by students. > 5: be used as an in circuit programmer with the same connector as the ICD2 > > the device uses a PIC18F2550. A 2455 should also work and was used in early > prototypes but turned out to be unavailible from our regular suppliers. If > you are building your own board and you don't care about size you could also > use a 4455 or 4550. As far as targets go i've added every 18 series pic that > i have here and any 18 series pic should be easy to add support for. Other > series should be possible with new firmware. > > see http://www.p10link.net/picsquirt/ for more details > > I would like to enter it in the design contest unfortunately the PCB design > was done using altium designer (on the universities systems), do you think i > should re-do it in a more easilly availible PCB package and if so what do i > reccomend i use? the free version of eagle? > > What application drives this? Got a windows app? --Bob -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist