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

[Tom Arnold]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:24:38AM -0400, 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?

While someone might support both, programmers are so cheap...

You can get the Atmel branded official USB programmer for around $30 from
Digikey.  I've tried some of the clones and the Real Thing just seems to
work more reliably.

For PIC I use the MPLAB compatible board from Olimex, but I see that
Microchip has finally realized that $200 for a programmer is rather limiting
and the PICkit3 is down to $70 so I'd probably go "name brand" on that too.

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