Compiling code

I'm not the guy to listen to, but I have to agree with Tim's original
suggestion.  This person obviously wants people to succeed in this
project, so at the very least he would know of and be willing to
suggest an appropriate programmer.  He would also want to list it
there in the project site, so you are probably doing him a favor by
asking him the question.

I have an AVR-ISP board which is a simple parallel port to jtag
programmer and is pretty cheap and works on my Win xp machine (it came
with an eval board that was $35)...yes, there are sync issues that
make it so it doesn't work perfectly every time, but the issues aren't
a big deal...I gotta believe there is a PIC equivalent to that
somewhere...

Thank you for all of your replies as they helped me a lot!   The author 
of the project was kind enough to give me the hex files.  He has been
very gracious with me up to this point and I didn't want to annoy him or 
step on his toes plus I thought that if he had wanted it out there he 
would have posted it. But I asked him and he said ok.  This guy is 
really ,really sharp!  And I am out of my league but
I'm going to make it work or else. Now I have to get the programs into the
controllers.   I have two files 1 master and 1 slave. Two boards get the 
slave version.  If I do get an off the shelf
programmer ,  is this module smart enough to take the hex file and
send it where it needs to go or is there another program that does that?
How long would the controller retain the programming without power
applied?  I have seen one state that it should last for
40 years.  Is that correct?

Thanks again for your time

Mike Burch

Apache Junction, AZ

On 2008-09-01, Mike Burch <mburch46@mchsi.com> wrote:

> I have two files 1 master and 1 slave. Two boards get the 
> slave version.  If I do get an off the shelf programmer, is
> this module smart enough to take the hex file and send it
> where it needs to go or is there another program that does
> that?

You'll need to run a program on a host that operates the
programmer interface and uses it to program the contents of the
hex file into the target.

> How long would the controller retain the programming without
> power applied?  I have seen one state that it should last for
> 40 years.  Is that correct?

Probably.  Nobody knows for sure.  Accellerated life testing
(running devices at high temperatures) is used to estimate
things like that.  40 years sounds reasonable.

-- 
Grant

Grant,

Thank you for your reply and your input.  Do you think this would be an 
acceptable programmer?


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Thank you

Mike Burch

Apache Junction, AZ

Mike Burch wrote:
> Grant,
> 
> Thank you for your reply and your input.  Do you think this would be an 
> acceptable programmer?
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> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=290158384716 
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> 
> Thank you
> 
> Mike Burch
> 
> Apache Junction, AZ


Disregard.  He is out of town.

My clock works!   Thank you for all of your help.  I wound up
using the Microchip PICkit2 programmer and the software went in
perfectly. Not nearly as difficult as I first imagined it would be.

Best wishes   Mike Burch  Apache Junction, AZ