EPE PIC Programming Toolkit TK3 For Windows

TK3 for short!

GREETINGS!

Before using this software, do make sure you fully read the text published
in EPE October 2001 so that you understand what Toolkit TK3 is intended
to do. Copies of the text are obtainable from EPE, contact details at the end
of this introduction. There are various extract notes from the EPE text readable
via the several blue NOTES buttons on the main screen and elsewhere.

It is important to note that the original TK3 was written to run on Windows 95,
98 and ME. However, since recent inclusion of the latest INPOUT32.DLL file, it
is now also capable of running on Windows 2000, XP or NT without the interim
system update described by Mark Jones in the EPE article Using TK3 With
Windows XP and 2000 of October '02. Marks article fulfilled a need at that time
but is not relevant to TK3 V3.00 and higher.

Some of the following information may update that in the published EPE TK3 text.

Always check the Updates file for any information that affects these notes. It
is normally issued whenever an update to TK3 is released and is accessible via
the "Latest Updates" button at the bottom of the main TK3 screen.

If you have any queries or comments, or suggestions for how future versions
could be enhanced, please let me know via the EPE Editorial Office.

CHECKING THE SYSTEM

From this window you have the opportunity to check that your computer
is outputting data to the PIC on the Toolkit MK3 PCB from the correct printer
port register (1 of 3 options). Simultaneously, this software automatically
checks if the computer is capable of reading data being input to its port,
as not all computers can do this. If yours can (and most should), it is
capable of verifying that programs are correctly loaded into the PIC, giving
brief advice on the possible cause if they are not.

Reading back data also allows the computer to disassemble the PIC's program
and data memories to text files for your examination. However, even if
your computer cannot READ data back, but it can SEND data to a normal dot
matrix printer, then it is capable of programming PICs.

Now click the Check PCB button to start checking your PCB and computer.

Note that TK3 can be used with the Toolkit Mk2 PCB, but an additional link
is required to be made - see the Notes accompany the Check PCB facility.

Best wishes, John Becker

Updated 28 Feb 2005

COPYRIGHT
 
This EPE PIC Toolkit TK3 software is the intellectual copyright of John Becker,
Technical Editor of Everyday Practical Electronics Magazine (EPE). It may
be freely copied and distributed on a non-commercial basis provided full
acknowledgement to John Becker and EPE are included as an integral part of it
and of any documentation associated with it, including this copyright statement,
and any changes you make to the program must be clearly stated as being of
your making at the head of the Main Program file, and indicating with the
software where you have made changes.

Commercial use of this software is expressly prohibited without the written
permission of John Becker and EPE.

For more information, contact (new address since June 2001):

Everyday Practical Electronics, Wimborne Publishing Ltd,
408 Wimborne Road East, Ferndown, Dorset BH22 9ND, UK.
Tel: 01202 873872. Fax: 01202 874562.
E-mail: john.becker@wimborne.co.uk
Web: http://www.epemag.co.uk
