27 Oct
2011
27 Oct
'11
3:13 p.m.
On 27 Oct 2011 at 14:20, Amardeep S Chana wrote:
Interestingly, it turns out one of the reasons I was
hired was to
backfill the fan-boy who resigned in a huff because a PIC-32 wasn't
selected.
Microchip is a very strange outfit when it comes to the PIC32. Like
the R4000, programming on the PIC32 is present as JTAG. However
Microchip incorporated a rather convoluted version of their SPI
protocol that's translated into JTAG on the chip. I'm sure it sells
a lot of PICKIT programmers, but otherwise, it's been a mystery to me
why this was done. Could it be that JTAG is more or less industry
standard for this sort of thing?
--Chuck