I was getting the hang of the 16F88X and they throw this at me.....

[MarioC]

First the 16F727 (16 MHz Int_Osc, I²C, SPI, etc).

I was stunned at the cool features this chip has but, right when I was about to order them I found this:
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2692

The good thing is that PBP (maybe 2.6?) and CCS (4.100 acording to ccsinfo.com) will have support for them:
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2693&param=en537971


Right now I'm downloading the webminar relative to the subject (http://techtrain.microchip.com/webseminars/ArchivedDetail.aspx?Active=191) to see what changes (the assambler part mostly, 14 new instructions).

Good thing I have a PBP licence (bought from Bruce at Rentron back in 2003, still have the 3.5" floppy :D).


And the PICKIT3 and ICD3 are a whole other story -my PICKIT2 and ICD2 are about a year old (bought them with 20% discount form Microchipdirect.com last December year), and now a new programmer...... can't keep up, but I must if I want to continue using PIC's ;)

PS: I still have not used the ICD2 and now they offer an ICD3.

[skimask]

All the neat new stuff in the enhanced core PICs should be transparent to the end user. PBP 2.50/a/b already supports the '727, as does the PICKIT2. So, you really shouldn't need to upgrade anything hardware-wise. PBP software, yes. PICKIT2 firmware, probably wouldn't hurt. Brain-ware...very little.