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

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/id...GE&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/id...param=en537971


Right now I'm downloading the webminar relative to the subject (http://techtrain.microchip.com/webse...spx?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.

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.