Hi Richard, I am using a clone of an ICD2 programmer/debugger to program and debug my PICs.
At the time I was looking for an IDE for linux I found piklab [1]. I found it quite usefull for the programs I did for PICs (mostly in assembler using gputils, but piklab also supports sdcc). The last release of piklab is version 0.16.2 from Oktober 2012. I don't know if there is any further development. See further comments below. On Saturday 07 June 2014 08:07:24 Richard Gray wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm sorry that this is a bit off-topic, but if ever there was an audience to > ask this question of, if would have to be here. > > Quite a few years ago, I did a project using a mid-range PIC16F84A - mostly > about digital inputs and outputs. The project worked perfectly, but I used a > programmer from Microchip called a PICstart. I used the supplied software > on Windows, which drove the programmer via an RS232C port. piklab supports the PICstart-Plus programmer, I don't know if that differs from the PICstart programmer. > I would like to do the same sort of thing over again using the same > programmer if at all possible, but 100% Linux (OpenSuse as it happens). Can > anyone comment upon this, and can anyone point me in the right direction > for some software that could utilise this rather old programmer? Obviously > I want to use SDCC with all this! As mentioned above, piklab should support this. There is also a programmer only executeable called 'piklab-prog' which could be used from command line without the IDE to program devices using the supported programmers. I had a quick look at the openSuSE pages and found that piklab is available as an already build rpm package [2]. Trying it should not cost many effort. > I've used SDCC quite successfully for Z80 targets; but that used an S4 EPROM > programmer simply using minicom via RS232, and that was dead-easy. > > Also, I'm mildly interested in a GUI Integrated Development Environment > (although I'm just as happy with text-mode and Curses-type interfaces), and > would appreciate a steer if anyone can offer some suggestions? > > Thanks in anticipation! I hope this helps you a little bit kind regards Patrick Wacker [1] http://piklab.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Piklab ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
