

It integrates fine with Microcode Studio using the command line tool, it works from within MPLAB and it works with the standalone software. I've got a PICKit3 and it works perfectly fine. This seems to be killing my projects before i've even started. The pickit3 may or may not program, the melabs U2 needs certains voltages/wiring/caps/resistors/mods to make it burn the 'K' series pics, and the ICD3 seems awfully expensive for what i need.

Now i read i should be using MPLAB that supports a larger library of chips to program, although still not sure which programmer i should be getting? I thought the pickit3 was a programming device, then i see it's a debugger device only, then elsewhere i see software for it for programming, although it doesnt support the pic18f87k22 i intended using. However, after reading several pages and sites about programming, i'm at bit of a loss. So, i've decided i'll add an ICSP connection on my project board(s) to allow me to program the pic on the PIM and get things going. I intend to plug the PIM onto my own project board(s) instead of worrying about making PCB's etc.

I'm considering using a pic18F87k22 which is already mounted on a microchip "PIM" pcb. I've recently found the need to use some large pics with more I/O (80pin devices)
