Month: August 2006

I changed the address type in the downloadable hex file from byte address to word address. Now over 256 byte codes work too. I also added padding of record lines, so all lines are now 32 words. And since I hope this works now enough for us, I reorganized the code a bit and increased the version number to 0.2.

I had to fix the 256 byte limitation for HEX files since I tried an example code that was more than that. I also fixed the 16F88 only limitation. Now the downloader accepts any Pic ID unless explicitly asked to verify the ID.

Lately I’ve been interested in PICs. We bought a 16F628 only to realize that it requires too much work to always flash the program to the chip with a separate programmer. So, we bought some 16F88s, because they support bootloaders. Linux support seems to be a bit inadequate and there’s no Linux application to download a software to the bootloader of our choice, so I started to make my own downloader. Currently it works but only with a very limited number of different HEX files.