[sdiy] Microcontrollers, development environments and hardware programmer recommendations.

[Paul Schreiber]

As a former MicroChip engineer, I’m getting a kick out of these posts.

 

The *default* is not to provide target power, but you can set it so that the ICD3 or PICKIT3 can power, but there is current-limiting set and the *intent* is to power JUST the PIC and NOT your entire board.

 

BTW:, my former buddy at MCHP just has had his new Explorer 16/32 board released, which is a tad $$$ but makes it REALLY easy to develop SW. Has LCD, temp sensors, LEDs, switches, ICD3 is *built in* to the board, USB3 support, etc.

 

Note that this is mainly a SW development platform, not a HW one. It uses little plug-in CPU ‘modules’ (usually $25ea, there are 100s of them) for the device “family” of interest (usually the largest pinout/memory).

 

I used one every day for 4 years (the previous one) and actually designed 4 of these little CPU boards.

 

Regards,

Paul S.

/retired, sorta

 

 

From: Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Pete Hartman
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2016 12:06 AM
To: Tom Wiltshire
Cc: Sdiy
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Microcontrollers, development environments and hardware programmer recommendations.

 

 

 

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net> wrote:

> 2. a hardware programmer, portability is key. USB and port powered preferable.

PICKit3 is cheap ($40 or so) and does the job. With this programmer, power is not supplied by the programmer, so the chip has to be powered, or you need to be programming a chip in a prototype circuit or on a breadboard.

 

That doesn't match my experience at all... ?

 

I had to go tweak some settings in the MPLAB X IDE to tell it to supply power, but once I did, I could program with the PICKit 3 and basically a socket on a stripboard, no other power source. 

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