On Sep 1, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Jason Hsu wrote:

> I have been able to get PICC-LITE to work, but the most  
> sophisticated microcontroller it's compatible with seems to be the  
> PIC16F84.

Nonsense.  If you're going to get useful advice, you need to stop  
making statements that are sweeping and incorrect generalizations not  
much better than "nothing works and everything sucks.  Help me!"   
Even my somewhat old PICC-LITE download supports chips like the  
16F627, 16F877, 16F684, and others that are "more sophisticated" than  
the F84. True, it doesn't seem to include support for the F72 chip  
you are interested in.

However, it looks like sometime around 15-Jul-08, Hi-tech re-thought  
that way that they implemented the "freeware" versions of their  
compiler.  In the older PICC-Lite, they supported a limited number of  
chips, with limitations on memory.  In their newer PICC-freeware,  
they claim to support ALL the chips with no memory limitations, but  
without optimization (meaning that the code produced is 2x bigger  
than with optimization.  Pretty painful, IMO, but still usable?)   
It's not the way that I'd show off my compiler technology to  
potential customers, but it's "not bad, for something that's  
free." (and it looks like you can turn on a 45-day "eval period"  
during which it will compile WITH optimization, if you end up tight  
on code space.)

So if you otherwise liked the hi-tech development environment, except  
for not supporting your chip, it might be worthwhile downloading a  
more recent version...

BillW


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