JPicProg

A Java-based tool to program Microchip PIC Microcontrollers

(under construction)

Currently Under Construction!

Introduction

Features

Program source code, while copyrighted by its authors, is available through the GNU General Public License (see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html ) allowing anyone who might be interested to share and enhance the code.
The source code is written in Java(TM) allowing its use on a number of different computing platforms. A native code library provides access to the parallel port under GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows. If the "/dev/port" driver is used, no native code library is necessary when using the software under Linux.
You can control the operation of JPicProg using a combination of property files, command-line arguments, and an interactive shell.
The software allows you to ...
- Bulk erase (and disable code protection)
- Verify
- Program code, data, id, configuration fuses
- Read
- Hex Dump
- Write Intel HEX records
- Generate checksum
- Blank check
- Reads and writes INX8 and INX16 hex files
- Support for serial mode flash and OTP PICs: PIC16F84 (tested), PIC16F877 (not fully tested), PIC12C509 (untested), PIC16F83 (untested), PIC16F84A (untested),
- Support for Tait serial mode parallel port programmers: Dontronics DT001 ( http://www.dontronics.com/DT001.html ), Prog84 ( http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pic84/pic84.html ) and similar Tait-style programmers.
Dynamically loads device and programmer classes. Using the facilities of the Reflection API, classes for microcontroller devices and programmers are searched for and loaded on-the-fly.
Adding new devices and programmers is greatly simplified by inheriting the bulk of the logic from parent classes. For instance, the definition for the Dontronics DT001 programmer is only 34 lines long (including comments) since practically all of its behavior is inherited from the TaitSerialModeProgrammer class.

Planned Enhancements

Support for serial port, serial mode programmers (how about Tony Nixon's ASCII and Pocket programmers?).
Support for a Swing-based GUI.
Support for more Microchip devices and programmers.
Support for the parport device so that the user won't have to have root privilages to run the program.
Internationalization (if there is demand from the users).