Alternative software for PIC® MCUs program downloading

The EduMic board has a standard downloading interface. This interface is explained in application note AN589 from Microchip. There are some other programs that are able to download binary HEX files using this interface. The ICProg software has been successfully tested with EduMic and the PIC16Fxxx and PIC18Fxxx families.

• Microchip page with the AN589. In this document you can find the board programming interface.
• ICProg Home Page. In this page you can download the programs, manuals, supported devices, etc.
• Once in the program you must chose AN589 as programming interface.
• You must install also the driver for the parallel port in case you have NT, 2000 or XP.

There is other software called PP06, and works also under Linux. It is supposed to be standard but we did not find the way to interface it to the EduMic board.

Please, contact us in case you successfully tested other programs or devices so we can include the information here.

Complementary tools

MPLAB® IDE: It is the Microchip development environment. This tool include MPASM that is the assembler program for PIC microcontrollers. This compiler is necessary to develop applications based on PIC microcontrollers. I can be downloaded from the Microchip's web page.

MPLAB® C18: It is an advanced C compiler for the 18 family of PIC microcontrollers. A demo version can be downloaded at no cost from the Microchip's web page. This free demo version has very few limitations, making this tool very interesting for medium size projects for the 18 family.

C2C: It is a economic shareware C/C++ compiler with some limitations but that it is useful for many applications.

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