Programming Microchip PIC from command line

Is there a tool to program Microchip PIC's from command line?

On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:36:19 +0300, I said, "Pick a card, any card"
and Nickolai Leschov <nleschov@gmail.com> instead replied:

>Is there a tool to program Microchip PIC's from command line?

Which command line?
--
Ray

Ray Haddad wrote:

  > Which command line?

My host OS is Windows.

I use MPLAB with HI-TECH C for programming PICs. My programmer/debugger 
is MPLAB ICD 2.

One day I decided that I had enough of MPLAB IDE and made a script to 
compile my project from command line. That works nice. Now if I could 
only have a command-line tool that will program (write binary code to) 
the target device, I will be really well set up.

Regards,
Nickolai Leschov

Nickolai Leschov wrote:
> Is there a tool to program Microchip PIC's from command line?

http://www.microengineeringlabs.com/ has PIC programmers that can run 
automated from the command line.  Make sure that you get one that can 
program your particular processor.

-- 
Thad

Thad Smith wrote:
> Nickolai Leschov wrote:
>> Is there a tool to program Microchip PIC's from command line?
> 
> http://www.microengineeringlabs.com/ has PIC programmers that can run 
> automated from the command line.  Make sure that you get one that can 
> program your particular processor.
> 
Thank you. But it seems like those will not be useful for me. My 
processors are surface mounted and need to be in-curcuit programmed

Nickolai

On Mar 4, 6:09 am, Nickolai Leschov <nlesc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thad Smith wrote:
> > Nickolai Leschov wrote:
> >> Is there a tool to program Microchip PIC's from command line?
>
> >http://www.microengineeringlabs.com/has PIC programmers that can run
> > automated from the command line.  Make sure that you get one that can
> > program your particular processor.
>
> Thank you. But it seems like those will not be useful for me. My
> processors are surface mounted and need to be in-curcuit programmed
>
> Nickolai

We have command batch compile/program for AVR/ARM, but no PIC yet.  We
are sick of point and click and IDE in general.  Graphical interface
looks good for beginners, but most will outgrow it.  Unfortunately,
manufacturers/tool makers are not listening.

On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:56:10 -0800, linnix wrote:

> On Mar 4, 6:09 am, Nickolai Leschov <nlesc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thad Smith wrote:
>> > Nickolai Leschov wrote:
>> >> Is there a tool to program Microchip PIC's from command line?
>>
>> >http://www.microengineeringlabs.com/has PIC programmers that can run
>> > automated from the command line.  Make sure that you get one that can
>> > program your particular processor.
>>
>> Thank you. But it seems like those will not be useful for me. My
>> processors are surface mounted and need to be in-curcuit programmed
>>
>> Nickolai
> 
> We have command batch compile/program for AVR/ARM, but no PIC yet.  We
> are sick of point and click and IDE in general.  Graphical interface
> looks good for beginners, but most will outgrow it.  Unfortunately,
> manufacturers/tool makers are not listening.

The Xilinx tools are nice that way (or at least were as of version V or 
so).  The tools themselves are a collection of command-line utilities, 
and the IDE is just a front-end.  Moreover, it doesn't take too long 
using the IDE to stumble across the log file (handily presented in a 
window) that shows you all the commands that were invoked to build your 
firmware.

That made it all _very_ easy to put the whole build process into a 
makefile, including downloading to the chip.  I ended up just using the 
IDE for simulations, and for occasional editing when I was doing a mix of 
simulation and in-the-real testing.

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linnix wrote:
> 
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> 
> We have command batch compile/program for AVR/ARM, but no PIC yet. 
> We are sick of point and click and IDE in general.  Graphical
> interface looks good for beginners, but most will outgrow it. 
> Unfortunately, manufacturers/tool makers are not listening.

That sounds refreshingly sane.

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As a PIC man for 30 years I would only use Microchip programmers.

These all run from MPLAB.

Nickolai Leschov wrote:
> Is there a tool to program Microchip PIC's from command line?
I use picp, http://home.pacbell.net/theposts/picmicro/, which can run a
picstart plus from the command line. Works well.

Paul Probert