Arduino as PIC18F programmer

Version 0.5

• 2021 - More Python 3 fixes by Maxime Vincent - https://github.com/maximevince/arduino-as-pic18f-programmer

• 2019 - Added support for PIC18F2xK22/PIC18F4xK22, Python 3 and more by Maxime Vincent - https://github.com/maximevince/arduino-as-pic18f-programmer

• 2017 - Improved by Xerxes Rånby - https://bitbucket.org/xranby/arduino-as-pic18f-programmer-for-linux

• 2017 - Adapted for Linux by Jose Carlos Granja - https://bitbucket.org/JoseFuzzNo/arduino-as-pic18f-programmer-for-linux

• Copyright (C) 2012 kirill Kulakov - https://sites.google.com/site/thehighspark/home

  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

INSTALLATION:

• Debian/Ubuntu:

apt install arduino python-serial

HOW TO:

1. Upload the sketch to the arduino (Adjust TOGGLE_MCLR define to your needs)
2. Connect the chip to the arduino (PGM is not used for PIC18F2xK22/PIC18F4xK22 series)
3. Run ./pic_programmer.py -i HEX_FILE

• For help run ./pic_programmer.py -h

Thats it!

SUPPORTED MCUs:

• PIC18F2455
• PIC18F2550
• PIC18F4455
• PIC18F4550
• PIC18F2420
• PIC18F2520
• PIC18F4420
• PIC18F4520
• PIC18F45K22, PIC18LF45K22
• PIC18F25K22, PIC18LF25K22
• PIC18F23K22, PIC18LF23K22
• PIC18F24K22, PIC18LF24K22
• PIC18F26K22, PIC18LF26K22
• PIC18F43K22, PIC18LF43K22
• PIC18F44K22, PIC18LF44K22
• PIC18F46K22, PIC18LF46K22

RELEASE NOTES:

version 0.4

• Support for PIC18F2xK22/PIC18F4xK22 series (Only PIC18F26K22 was tested)
• Python 3 support
• Code clean-up

version 0.3

• Support loading EEPROM, Id and comment sections from HEX file.
• Programming is faster Arduino UNO serial USB operate at 2000000 baud instead of 9600 baud
• Verification that Program, ID & EEPROM memory have been programmed correctly

version 0.2

• has a new PC-side software written in Python. It's simpler than the old one and a bit faster, it uses the pySerial library and allows to program the following microcontrollers:

• 18F2420
• 18F2455
• 18F2520
• 18F2550 (* tested)
• 18F4420
• 18F4455
• 18F4520
• 18F4550 (* tested)