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PICmicro microcontrollers, or MCUs, are fine chips that are especially easy
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to program with a simple device attached to a parallel or serial port.
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Because of the EEPROM or Flash memory, they are also easy and fast to erase
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and reprogram without need for UV equipment. This makes them very popular
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among electronics hobbyists.
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At the moment this is the second implementation of a PIC programmer for
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Linux that works with the very simple and cheap serial port programmers.
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The first one I know was made by Ralph Metzler in 1996. My programmer was
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originally designed for PIC16C84 and PIC16F84 chips back in 1997, and since
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then I have implemented other chips without access to most of them. I have
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tested PIC16F628, PIC16F676, PIC12F675, PIC16F88, PIC16F876A, PIC16F76,
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PIC18F1320 and PIC18F458. Others have used many other models. The dsPIC30
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family has some code in the sources, but the support is not finished yet.
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Some 12 bit chips should be supported but I have not tested that support.
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