PIC programmer in the making, Requesting Wishlist

[sunrom]

usb pic pic programmer gnu

Greetings to All,
We are requesting your wish list for ongoing PIC programmer development, as of now it has a AVR ATMEGA128 MCU with bootloader support which talks to the PC side running a programming software in Delphi. AVR MCU will help upgrading the firmware inside. Firmware is being made in C by WinAVR as PN as IDE. We did consider using a PIC as firmware MCU but due to non-available of free C compiler for PIC we decided to use AVR as firmware MCU and WinAVR as compiler.

Eventually the PIC programmed will be released under GNU just as we released 89 Series programmer recently.

Our goal is to design PIC programmer that can never become obsolete as the preprogrammed firmware AVR always can be upgraded with the PC sofware when new chips are introduced.

As you are aware of various free PIC programmer available online most of them work with Parallel port with simple hardware but they have timing problems and not reliable.

Our goal is to design the programmer as close to the ProMate from Microchip that is a production level programmer.

Future plans are to port the programmers to USB with the use of FT232.

We are requesting you to post your wishlist.

Best Regards,
ST

 

[FoxyRick]

Wishlist:

0. Delete your duplicate post to save the moderators the trouble.

1. An attractive price. The reason I, and probably many others, made my own programmer is that they are just too expensive compared to the parts cost to make one.

2. ZIF socket plus ICSP header.

3. No programming problems if the PC happens to be busy doing something else as well when programming.

4. Standard voltage supply needed like 9V, 12V, or best of all, mains (unless you intend to supply as a unhoused board of course)

I'll think of more!

By the way, is this you?

https://www.sunrom.com/

FoxyRick.

 

[sunrom]

Hello Rick,
Duplicate post is deleted now, it was by mistake when PC showed Page Error,

1) An attractive price is a must, And its one of our goal too, that's why with GNU tools we are making the programmer GNU.

2) ZIF + ICSP is a part of it already onboard

3) Programming by Serial port gives buffer to overcome timing problems.

4) Have provision for controlling 5V, 12V5 by MCU

Yes its us https://www.sunrom.com

Regards,
ST

Added after 2 minutes:

We are the one who recently released the Atmel 89 Series programmer under GNU at
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Added after 6 minutes:

we will keep mains out of the board since various countries have different mains supply and the board will work with 15V adapter

 

[bimbla]

Generic bootloaders for PIC 16F and 18F series would also be of a lot of help.

bimbla.

 

[checkmate]

Here's my inputs.

1. Programming capabilities for others eg. AVRs and serial EEPROMS.
2. This is my personal experience from using CCS's ICD on an ICDv1 clone. It has the function to witch between "Running Mode" and "Programming Mode".

 

[sunrom]

That was a noteworthy point to support AVRs too, ICD is compiler specific, but we will be considering that
This is where we found the specs to PIC ICD,
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Any more references?

 

[virus]

Hello,
Integrate a flash memory in the programmer so that the progremmer could store the hex files and operated without connect to the PC.