Serial Programmers for PIC use In Circuit Serial Programming (ICSP) for the burning purposes. They can be used to burn the hex code without removing the Microcontroller from the application circuitry.
Serial programmer uses computer’s serial port for interfacing to the circuit. Because of circuit simplicity, its cost is very low.
Various serial programmers compatible with OpenLab
JDM programmer
Commonly used and available serial programmer is JDM programmer. It uses a DB9 connector to connect with computer serial port and not compatible with any USB to serial converter. The output of the JDM programmer is a 6 pin connector. It is compatible with the PIC board ICSP connector.
Software for Serial Programmers
- Our recommendation for this purpose is PICpgm programmer software. You can download it from this link: Download PICpgm programmer
- WinPICProg
- IC Prog prototype programmer