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Which Pins Are Used To Program

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:07 pm
by Darren.Smith
Good Evening Gentleman, I Have Recently started making my own pcb's and have now decided to use surface mount pic's in doing this i am going to need to make a little board to quickly solder a pic onto so i can wire it into the eb006 programmer to program, which brings me to my question of which pins are actually used during the downloading of code to a pic, i ask this as it would be easier to tack a few pins rather than have to solder all 44, as far as i am aware pins required are vpp pgm and vdd vss, are ther any others????

cheers Dazza

Re: Which Pins Are Used To Program

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:38 pm
by medelec35
Hi Darren,

This should help:
http://www.matrixmultimedia.com/support ... ?f=2&t=586

Martin

Re: Which Pins Are Used To Program

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:15 pm
by Darren.Smith
cheers martin, got fed up of drilling 40 1 mm holes to fit a pic so decided to go to surface mount, so much simpler, that link was perfect, will give that a go tomorrow...fingers crossed...

cheers
Dazza

Re: Which Pins Are Used To Program

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:50 am
by medelec35
No problem Darren,
I don't blame you for wanting to solder and drill as few wires/holes as possible. I f i was in your shoes, I would be the same.
Glad the link helped.

Thanks for letting us know.

Martin

Re: Which Pins Are Used To Program

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:21 am
by Benj
Surface mount is the future :D

Its so much easier to get good looking boards and also quicker to do once you have the knack.

Great tutorial available free from here.
http://www.001tech.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=60

Re: Which Pins Are Used To Program

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 5:36 pm
by Darren.Smith
totally agree ben, they are already starting to phase out the older dil type ic's and replacing them with surface mount only, a bit of a pain for older designs but much easier to work with in the long run, i am surprised matrix does not do a plug in board for the eb006 programmer to take the new surface mount devices.....