I would ask why? The PICs are essentially not being developed. The number of products being released are very low. Two this year.
Microchip committed to supporting the products in March 2022. They have given no commitment to new PICs. Northern Software have ceased all PIC related developments. We will only develop new capabilities under a specific Statement of Work with contractually bound payments. We have offered all our source code back to Microchip for release as Open Source with support for new PICs. We did this as a test of strategic direction... the response was 'not our strategic direction'. My advice think about any investment of time. GCBASIC strategic direction. AVRDX microcontroller. This should tell you even more. :-) On Tue, 6 Aug 2024, 19:08 [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I posted this question on Jallist and Jallib. > > Some time ago Rob Hamerling mentioned that the new version of MPLABX will > no longer support the PICKit3. You can use other software (PICKitPlus, > PICKitMinus) but these are all Windows applications and not usable for > Linux users. There are also other open source programmers like Openprog: > http://openprog.altervista.org/OP_eng.html#Top > > I like to keep things simple and so I started JAPP (Just Another PIC > Programmer) to see if I could make a simple programmer only for PIC > Microcontrollers. The idea is that it connects to a USB port and does not > act like an HID but as a COM port. In order to control is you just send > commands in text to this comport. Works for Linux, Mac and Windows. The > only thing you need is Python as to send some info over (or you make your > own application). I am just starting and it will take quite some time to > complete this. I have some help from Rob Hamerling who created a Python > script to extract the relevant programming info for all PICs from the > MPLABX XML files, the same files that are used to generate the JAL device > files. > > Since it will take quite some time to finish this - it is a project I > sometimes spend some time on - I could develop it in an Agile way and > upload the next version to a GitHub account I have, each time supporting > more PICs. The only thing you would need is a second PIC that you program > that replaces the PIC on the board. Currently I am using a PIC18F26J50 > since I need more than 32k of ROM. I also want to make a PCB layout to > ease the build of it. > > I was wondering if there is any interest in this programmer. > > Kind regards, > > Rob > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jallib" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/bf50d112-9173-478e-bd71-f6efaa6cb348n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/bf50d112-9173-478e-bd71-f6efaa6cb348n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/CADfhC%2BJfOf8R_mQXfyQ2Cdwbwr1rhdTcbYw_YhZtbFCiT93%2BaA%40mail.gmail.com.
