Current Version:

2.0

Released 10/24/2002

WinPSP is a stand-alone Windows XP/2000/NT/ME/98 application that works with Microchip's PICSTART Plus entry-level PICmicro device programmer. Its origin was as a work-around for a bug in MPLAB that currently makes it virtually impossible to use the PICSTART Plus on Windows 2000 systems with more than one CPU. My original intent was to keep the application simple and tailored to my own specific needs, but over time I found myself adding enough generalized features to it that it became logical to put in a bit more effort and release it publically.

WinPSP is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). As such full source code is available on this site for those who would like to modify the application or incorporate the code into their own projects. If you do so, however, the GPL binds you to publish the full source code for your own product as well.

I probably would not have taken on this project if I didn't find PICSTART protocol information from Cosmodog, Ltd. I referred extensively to the source code for their "picp" command line utility and generated the original INI files I used for device definitions directly from tables in their code.