The PICPgm Development Programmer Software is a free and simple In-System-Development Programmer Software for the Microchip PIC microcontrollers.
The programmer software is available with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and a Command Line interface.
To interface the PC to the PIC microcontroller a programmer hardware is necessary. PICPgm supports a lot of different programmes which can be connected to the PC via the centronics port (printer port), serial COM port or USB.
Up to now many different PIC devices are supported as well. A complete list of all supported Microchip PIC microcontrollers can be found here.
The needed programmer hardware itself is very simple and can easily be built up using a few standard componets. PICPgm supports all kind of serial port programmers as well as parallel port programmers.
Furthermore a USB programmer is supported. The programmer pins can be configured through the graphical user interface.
The most popular PIC programmers (e.g. JDM, Tait, Microchip AN589 programmer, El Cheapo, ...) are pre-configured and will be automatically detected by the software.
More detailed information about the programmer hardware can be found in the Hardware section.
Main features:
- Graphical User Interface and Command Line version available
- Runs on Windows 9x/ME/2k/XP/Vista and Linux (for WIN 2k/XP/Vista an include driver is used to access the parallel port)
- Automatically detects the PIC device and uses the appropriate programming method
- Programs flash memory (code), internal EEPROM and configuration bits from data of HEX file
- Designed to allow In-System-Programming and low-voltage programming (no programming voltage needed!)
- Many supported PIC microcontrollers (a list of all supported devices can be found here)
- Support of popular programmers like JDM, Tait, Microchip AN589 programmer, El Cheapo, ...
- Programmer pins can be configured (pin assignment, inverted/non inverted pin)