I will write it on the blackboard 100 times in peninence: ICSP ICSP
ICSP....
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Phil" <phil1960us@y...> wrote:
> I thought the 628 was an 18 pin chip. :)
>
> You might want to look at mill-max dip IC sockets. They make
fairly
> long soldertail sockets. the pins are 20 mils wide and 170 mils
> long. That might work though its a hack. mouser has them. p789
of
> current catalog.
>
> I'd suggest you skip the socket stuff altogether and build an ICSP
> header on your target hardware. You could get an 18 pin socket and
> solder on the 5 wires you need for the 5 (or 10) pin ISCP socket.
> ICSP is 10X easier than prying the chip out of its socket and
> sticking it into a programmer ∗every∗ ∗time∗ you make a change.
> Also, you can just ICSP to a seperate socket.
>
> Another approach is to get a "dip clip" and connect the appropriate
> pins to the ISCP pins on your programmer. Then to program a chip
in
> circuit, you just clip on and program away.
>
> Phil
>
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Anthony Toft" <toftat@c...>
> wrote:
> > In my infinate wisdom, I built my pic programmer to program
_only_
> the
> > 16F627 and '628 (both 28 pin). Now I am looking at other projects
> and I am
> > going to need more IO, so I need to built an "adapter" for these
> bigger
> > chips. I am looking for DIL pins that I can solder to the bottom
of
> my
> > adapter and will plug into the 28 pin socket. Sort of like how
the
> basic
> > stamp does. I have no idea to their name or where to find them.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks