This is Picprog, a Microchip PIC microcontroller programmer software
for the simple serial port device.
Copyright © 1997,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2010 Jaakko Hyvätti.
It may also work for serial eeproms and such with modifications.


What you need:

	Serial port pic programming hardware,
	g++ compiler,
	Linux kernel version 2.0.32 or 2.1.45 or later
	..or Cygwin DLL version 1.5.8 or later
	A pic assembler, for example gpasm.

Quick installation instructions:

	make dep
	make
	make install

To program for example a pic16f84 chip:

	picprog --burn --device=pic16f84 --input something.hex --pic /dev/ttyS1

Includes a tool to test PC serial port: testport

Full manual:

	see the file picprog.html in this directory
	or <URL:http://www.iki.fi/hyvatti/pic/picprog.html>

The author may be contacted at:

	Email: Jaakko.Hyvatti@iki.fi
	URL:   http://www.iki.fi/hyvatti/

Remember: this is not a production quality programmer!  See the
data sheets from Microchip for more information about what
that means.
