LDmicro Forum - suggestion

suggestion (by Joao Paulo)

Hello Jonathan Westhues,

There are many people interested in your compiler LDmicro here in Portugal and some are willing to send you a bottle of good wine.

I saw here that the ldmicro is ready to work with the tiny bootloader.

My ask is if you want to put a booton in ldmicro for program?
That booton must be possible to choose the programer, like icprog or tiny bootloader or MCloader or PICPgm or oder else.

What i want is make the program whith ldmicro and download it without exit from ldmicro.

Thanks and

good work

Joao Paulo

Mon Jul 20 2009, 10:44:53

(no subject) (by Jonathan Westhues)

That would be useful, but I'm reluctant to add dependencies on hardware or other software to LDmicro.

I personally use Microchip's PICkit 2 (for in-circuit programming, without a bootrom). That software has a mode where it automatically programs the PIC every time a specified IHEX file changes on disk. So I just have to specify the hex file in the programmer, and then it programs the PIC every time I compile. All I have to do is press F5.

Is there anything like that for the bootloaders? That seems like a cleaner solution, if there is.

Mon Jul 20 2009, 14:55:52

question (by Jose Sanchez)

Hi Jonathan:

It's nice the software that you use for programming your PIC. Do you know something like that for AVR's?

Thanks a lot.

Fri Jul 24 2009, 23:59:24

(no subject) (by Jonathan Westhues)

I haven't found anything as nice as the PICkit 2 programmer for AVRs.

My current best suggestion is the AVRISP mkII. That doesn't have the auto-program feature, but you can run the tools from the command line. So it would be easy to write a few lines of perl or something to do that if you wanted.

The AVRISP mkII is ~40 USD, connects over USB, available from Digikey and other distributors. Pretty similar to the PICkit 2 in that respect.

Sat Jul 25 2009, 00:15:51