On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Wouter van Ooijen<wouter@voti.nl> wrote:
> Chance Walton wrote:
>> I have an old piece of equipment that has a dsPIC30F6010 in it. =A0Its an
>> old soft start that is just for parts so I can play with it and can't
>> hurt anything. =A0Is it possible to download the program out of the pic?
>> I understand it wont have any comments, but would there be anything
>> readable?
>
> *if* the PC is not read-protected you can read it out with any
> programmer that supports that chip. The result is a .hex, which can be
> converter to assembler (mplab), but it will lack any meaningful names,
> so it will not be easy to decipher. If you want to study assembler code
> there is lots of better material on the web.

Yes, and you can write a program to read the assembler file and
convert any addresses to meaningful names using a lookup table (there
should be such provisions in the MPLAB distribution).

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