Jesse Lackey wrote:
> and it is nice to give a cable to clients here and there, to program the
> board you made for them with an ICD2 you told them to buy for updates
> down the road / in the field.

This may sound like a self-serving suggestion, but you really don't want to
use a ICD2 for field upgrades, especially for customers to use themselves.
The chances of a screwup and resulting phone call when they try to
clickety-click their way thru MPLAB alone make this a bad idea.  But worse
is that the ICD2 is not a production programmer, which Microchip is actually
careful to point out.  Do it right and get a real production programmer that
can be run from a dedicated program that can have all its parameters passed
on the command line.  That allows you to wrap the programming operation into
a larger program, or give them a single BAT file to run that just does the
programming.

Personally I think my ProProg (http://www.embedinc.com/proprog) production
programmer is a good choice for this task, although there are probably
others out there.  At 1/3 the price of the Microchip PM3 and a lot less
clunky, I think it's a good deal too.


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