[sdiy] dsPIC fun board

[Jason Tribbeck]

Hi,

Eric Brombaugh wrote:
>
> Matthew Smith wrote:
> > Quoth Jason Proctor at 2009-01-17 06:46...
> >> are there any Mac (or Linux, at a pinch) tools for the dsPIC series?
> >> i'm not seeing any on the microchip.com site.
> >
> > If you can't find any, you could always virtualise.
> >
> > I run Linux on the desktop and have WinXP installed as a guest OS under
> > VMWare Workstation.  Hardly seems to run any slower than when I had this
> > thing dual-booting and Windoze was running directly on the hardware!
> 
> True enough. I run MPLAB on WinXP under VMWare Fusion on my Macbook.
> Works just fine, and Fusion is pretty inexpensive. A legal copy of WinXP
> was actually the limiting factor in this setup for me.
> 
> You still need some sort of download hardware though. Since I use an
> MCHP ICD2 I don't know what the alternatives are.

I use PICKit2 on my Mac natively - works very well (although I've not ventured above 18F series yet; the dsPIC are listed as being supported by the command line program [pk2cmd]).
-- 
Jason Tribbeck