I've spent hours now pouring over the Microchip.com site and looking at all
the options, but I'll be darned if I can find a list of the devices
compatible for programming or for debugging with the PICKit 3. Specifically,
I want to find out which uC's are supported for ICD and which require an
adapter. 

The ultimate goal is to find a good range of uC that can all be debugged in
circuit with the cheapest possible setup and are pin compatible so one kit
board can be populated with a uC cost and code space appropriate for the
many different jobs the board can support. E.g. a very low end uC can
replace a basic 555 pulse generator for testing stepper motors with switches
for "faster", "slower", "start/stop", and "axis/dir" where a much higher end
uC would be needed with the same switches to support multi-axis,
multi-waypoint, position programming with speed ramping and position change
triggering. In that later case the same buttons would be "axis/dir",
"step/ramp", "save/next", and "prog/run" or more likely, setup from a PC.

The kit board will support a range of activities including whatever you
might imagine could be done with a small LCD panel, switches, low resolution
analog inputs (temp, voltage, high side current, etc...), serial/USB/RF io
to a PC (possible opto-isolation), pulse generation and measurement, stepper
driver breakout, etc... It will replace 3 different PCB's I currently sell
and add a number of new possibilities at the same time.

One of those possibilities is to sell it as an educational kit for use with
the PICKit or other low cost debugger, and for that, I need to know which
chips can be supported by the debugger at the lowest possible cost. And so I
need to know which are supported without an adapter, and that... I can't
seem to find.

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James Newton
1-970-462-7764
mailto:jamesnewton@massmind.org
http://www.massmind.org/member/JMN-EFP-786



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