CHIPINFO ?
A couple of weeks ago I made a post on the DIY forum asking whether anyone had any completed CHIPINFO.DIY (CHIPINFO.DAT, as it was previously known) script entries ready to go. So far, the response has been a deafening silence...
The new style scripts are NOT the same as the old CHIPINFO.CID used with the DIY programmers up to and including Protocol 18 - they are considerably more complex. I am unwilling to write new ones myself - Hey, I'm spending a lot of my spare time writing the new MP2 and I shouldn't be expected to write the scripts too!!!
So I'm making another appeal here:
Anyone interested in creating P19 style scripts please get in touch with Bob (bob ~At~ kitsrus dot com) ASAP - I don't have permission to distribute the necessary documents, but Bob has them. As an incentive, although the documents state that the "Credits" entry in the script (identifying the author of the script for a particular chip) is unused by MP2, this is not strictly accurate. When a user selects a chip whose script was written by you, your name (or whatever you filled in, nothing rude please) will appear in the status bar of MP2's main window. So you'll get your moment of glory...
So please help out - the scripts are not going to write themselves!
A list of devices that I would really like scripts for:
12F675,16F628,16F688,16F819,16F777,16F876A,16F877A,18F252,18F452,18F2520
18F4520,18F4525,18F2550.
These are devices that I actually have available to test - scripts for other devices are welcome too!
I already have a few entries, supplied by Bob, which it is not necessary to duplicate. For reference, these chips are:
10F200,10F202,10F204,10F206,16F627A,16F628A,16F648A,16LF627A
16LF628A,16LF648A.
posted by LogicSpark @ 5:23 PM
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6 Comments:
Hi Stuart,
I joined DIY_Programmer_Scripts at Yahoo in December, but apparently nobody ever checks to allow new members to join. I'll try once more at DIY.
Regards, Bruce
Bruce, I had a brief look at that Yahoo group (once I realised that I had to go via the US version of Yahoo...) and the one thing that struck me straight away was the complete lack of any activity for the last several months. I'd really like to know whether they came up with anything before it fizzled out though - I never joined the group! I think a major cause of the burnout was down to the original development work being more or less cloaked in secrecy, and nothing was seen to be happening at that end so people just lost interest. Hopefully this blog will change all that.
Hi Stuart,
just got an eMail from Bob. He can't remember the login, that's why he hasn't been able to administer the group. I asked him to send me the neccessary stuff. I can certainly do the 18F1320, 18F2550, 18F4550, 18F4620 and 18F4680.
are these the tested scripts? http://allen.soard-web.com/cgi-bin/chipinfomgr
I don't know if any of these have been verified by Bob, but I doubt it. I'm sure he would have pointed me there if he knew about it!
I downloaded the file, and MP2 promptly choked on it - threw a debug assert and died. Never mind - that's why I wanted scripts in the first place, so I can thoroughly debug the handling before letting it loose. This CHIPINFO file looks like it was created on a Linux/*nix system and I need to get MP2 to handle that possibility anyway, so bottom line is that it's going to be pretty useful to me.
Some of the 16F devices I wanted are already there, too. But there are still very few of the 18F types. The ones you are working on are NOT included in this file...
Added 18F1320, 18F2550, 18F4550, 18F4620 and 18F4680. Server appears to have died though: edit and insert are working, but the cpmplete DIY list can't be downloaded. Hope that is fixed soon.
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