> The Au Group Electronic BB0703 design provides an additional power supply. > With the BB0703 design, the hardware is ready for download all your hex file into > the PICKit2 box, bring it to the filed, hook up the power supply and ICSP connector, > a button push will download your hex file to your target board. No PC operation at all. In my opinion, for this we could use the mini-B connector to supply the power - many appliances already use this technique, like Motorola's bluetooth headset or Navman's GPS - both of them has a 5V wallmart PSU with a mini-B plug. What great advantage I can see on that external power plug is that we could supply a more stable source to the programmer which is generally good. Tamas On Jan 23, 2008 5:36 PM, alan smith wrote: > Now that would be nice for field updates...no more sending units back home > to fix issues. > > Funny NYPD wrote: This is the same experience our > engineering team got. > The hardware design of PICkit2 is very good and very robust, the PICkit2 > software might have more work to do. > > For instance you cannot link more than one PICKit2 on your computer, this > will crash your Windows XP. The good thing is, Microchip has realized this > and started working on it. Hopefully it will be on next major release. > > Another possible feature might never come true without some third part > help. The PICKit2 was designed with 1M EEPROM on board which has the > capability to store hex file, as of today, it wasn't used yet. The Au Group > Electronic BB0703 design provides an additional power supply. With the > BB0703 design, the hardware is ready for download all your hex file into the > PICKit2 box, bring it to the filed, hook up the power supply and ICSP > connector, a button push will download your hex file to your target board. > No PC operation at all. > > This is also a good feature for production line programming. All operators > have to do is hook up the wires to a target board and push a single button. > No PC, NO application software operation is required. > > Right now, Au Group Electronics has the hardware platform ready and we are > willing to provide some test work if there is any third part want to make > this engineering dream to a true daily-useful tool-set. > > Funny N. > New Bedford, MA > http://www.AuElectronics.selfip.com > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Mark Rages > To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. > > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:47:37 PM > Subject: Re: [PIC] PICkit2 for 3.3V chips > > On 1/22/08, Tamas Rudnai wrote: > > Thanks Funny for the info, > > > > Vdd was ok, I was just scratching my head about the PGD/PGC line - > signal > > level also has to be regulated and that is quite tricky and simple in > the > > same time on PicKit2, but was not sure if I can trust on that. Olin's > > solution is the opposite - not quite simple but reliable - the price of > that > > device is higher though, and the purpose is a bit different. > > > > Tamas > > The PICkit 2 voltage limiting circuit actually works fine. I wouldn't > make a purchase decision on that alone. > > Regards, > Mark > markrages@gmail > -- > Mark Rages, Engineer > Midwest Telecine LLC > markrages@midwesttelecine.com > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist