> At the moment this is one of the issues I am working through.
>> 3. I'm interested in using piklab and gpasm/gplink under Linux, but am
>> willing to use the MPLAB IDE if I have to. =A0My limitations are that I
>> just don't know Windows like I know Linux. =A0Any recommendations or
>> experiences would be welcome.
>>
> MPLAB doesn't require special Windows knowledge, it installs easily and
> isn't too bad to learn.
> There is lots of help here on problems that might appear. I have a
> PICKIT2 that works fairly well (I have recently had some issues , there
> is a thread going for last 2 weeks, but seems to be a special case. I
> allows programming and debugging without pulling the chip out of the
> board. I also have a Microengineering EPIC parallel (printer port)
> programmer that requires pulling the chip. I'm sure others will comment
> in this area, there are other capable setups.
> I can't comment on the Linux side.

As for linux tools, they will be good enough for this particular
project. I'm playing with piklab, gpasm, gpsim and with sdcc now, and
programming pic16. It works.
I am not quite sure sdcc in current state would be good enough to work
with usb stuff for example, but I'm not good enough myself for that
anyway :)

Pickit2 works, too, using pk2cmd. Piklab seems to have pickit2
capabilities, but programming usually failed when I tried. It worked
well with commandline pk2cmd for the same setup and hex file.

These tools do not give debugging possibilites that would be available
using mplab, but probably you can live without that for this simple
project.
I'm using only an old scope and multiple leds for debugging, since I
burned my "Logic Sniffer".

There are sdcc 1wire libraries available on net, so It should be easy
to use ds1820 for temperature sensor.

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