What pic burner to use (other than Pic Burner or JDM module)????

[intellijel]

I built the Pic Burner hoping that a USB to Parallel cable would work with it. It doesn't...or at least I can't get P18 to recognize it. I would read the helpfile or e-mail Sprut.de if everything wasn't in german!!!

I don't have a computer with a parallel port (like most people these days).

What USB based programmer can I use to program the PIC18F4620 and PIC18F452.

Is there a simple circuit I can build so that I can use a Pic Kit 2?

Or should I buy something like this: http://www.electrokits.com/electronics/programmers/100.htm

Help greatly appreciated, I need to get these burned ASAP

btw, I could buy them with the boot loader burned in from smash tv but the price of buying four or more chips from him is the same as buying a commercially available burner and then I can get an almost endless supply of free chips from microchip.com as samples.

[intellijel]

From another site I found this connection scheme:

PICKit2 pins

1 - VPP to 1 from PIC18F452

2 - VDD to 11 and 32 from PIC18F452

3 - GND to 12 and 31 from PIC18F452

4 - RB7 to 40 from PIC18F452

5 - RB6 to 39 from PIC18F452

6 - not used

I assume PIC18F452 and PIC18F4620 are interchangeable in this situation as well?

[stryd_one]

Yeh they program the same. One thing to watch out for is that it supports HVP mode, which I think that pinout does?

[intellijel]

Yep the above worked.

So personally I would highly recommend buying a pic kit 2 (or clone...eitherway they are under $40) and then you can use the Pic Kit 2 software to program the PICs.

I made the connections listed above on a breadboard in about five minutes and had no problem programming a PIC18F4620

[stryd_one]

Thanks for the update :)

I'll just keep buying motherboards with LPT ports I think!