The ECE department has purchased 10 PICkit 2 Starter Kits for use by Senior Design teams that are using microcontrollers from Microchip. The kits are available for checkout for the duration of the senior design project (see Dr. Reese).
The kit allows in-circuit programming for most Microchip microcontrollers and also includes the MPLAB IDE (Integrated Development Environment). The box contains the following:
A few quick steps should get everything you need installed and verified:
For connecting to your board, all you need is a 6-pin male header with connections back to your microcontroller in a similar manner to the demo board: LpcDemoBoardSchematic.pdf
The ICD2 programmer is an older programmer than the PICKit2, but use the same programming signals to accomplish in-circuit programming. This article has a good explanation of the in-circuit programming signals, and also discusses usage of the ICD2 programmer.