Version 0.2

Copyright (C) 2012  kirill Kulakov - https://sites.google.com/site/thehighspark/home

Adapted for Linux by Jose Carlos Granja - https://bitbucket.org/JoseFuzzNo/arduino-as-pic18f-programmer-for-linux

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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HOW TO:

1. Upload the sketch to the arduino
2. Connect the chip to the arduino
3. Run ./pic_programmer.py -i HEX_FILE

* For help run ./pic_programmer.py -h

Thats it!

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RELEASE:

version 0.3
 - Support loading EEPROM, Id and comment sections from HEX file.
 - Programming is faster
   Arduino UNO serial USB operate at 2000000 baud instead of 9600 baud

version 0.2 - has a new PC-side software written in Python. It's simpler than the old one and a bit faster, it uses the pySerial library and allows to program the following microcontrollers:
	18F2420
	18F2455
	18F2520
	18F2550
	18F4420
	18F4455
	18F4520
	18F4550

Only the 18F2550 and 18F4550 have been tested.