This is Picprog, a Microchip PIC microcontroller programmer software for the simple serial port device. Copyright © 1997,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Jaakko Hyvätti. It may also work for serial eeproms and such with modifications. What you need: Serial port pic programming hardware, g++ compiler, Linux kernel version 2.0.32 or 2.1.45 or later ..or Cygwin DLL version 1.5.8 or later A pic assembler, for example gpasm. Quick installation instructions: make dep make make install To program for example a pic16f84 chip: picprog --burn --device=pic16f84 --input something.hex --pic /dev/ttyS1 Full manual: see the file picprog.html in this directory or <URL:http://www.iki.fi/hyvatti/pic/picprog.html> The author may be contacted at: Email: Jaakko.Hyvatti@iki.fi URL: http://www.iki.fi/hyvatti/ Remember: this is not a production quality programmer! See the data sheets from Microchip for more information about what that means.