[sdiy] ISP programmer for both Pic AND AVR??

[Tom Wiltshire]

I absolutely agree with Eric and Olivier. You need a programmer that is reliable and trustworthy (, even if that means having two. Anyway, why's that so bad? I've got two and I only use PIC/dsPIC!

Tom (Reliable programmer? Lend me a tenner and see for yourself...)


On 21 Mar 2012, at 16:35, Olivier Gillet wrote:

> The bus pirate can emulate both AVR and PIC programmers iirc. You
> might need adapter cables - much better than a bunch of F/F jumper
> cables. Not worth doing, IMHO. Nothing sucks more than tracking a bug
> in code which turns out to be perfectly fine - just that it has been
> flashed with a flaky programmer. Consider programmers like test
> equipment - you want it to be as little "hacky" as possible if you
> don't want troubleshooting to turn into nightmares.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Eric Brombaugh <ebrombaugh1 at cox.net> wrote:
>> Don't know much about AVR programming, but I strongly recommend you get a PIC/dsPIC programmer that's directly supported in MPLAB. Anything else is just going to be frustrating and interfere with the development process.
>> 
>> Eric
>> 
>> On Mar 21, 2012, at 8:24 AM, dan snazelle wrote:
>> 
>>> I am about to pick up a dspic , and I am also interested in learning to use AVR STUDIO to program my AVR chips.
>>> 
>>> i was wondering, do i need to buy an ATMEL Programmer AND a MiCROCHIP PICKit
>>> 
>>> OR is there a solution that will program both?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> (they both use the same header so i thought that maybe.....)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> thanks
>>> 
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