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

[Harry Bissell]

professionally:

Time and again I have tried the PICKit3 only to have it waste my time and ended up using
the ICD2 or ICD3.

The PICKit might be OK for some PIC processors but I don't trust it one bit !

(the ICDs have not been trouble)

H^) harry


----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Arnold <xyzzy at sysabend.org>
To: synthdiy diy <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:51:14 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [sdiy] ISP programmer for both  Pic AND AVR??

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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