Hello, I am intrigued with your discussion about PIC programmers, as I am lead to believe the same thing with Chamith (I am also a newbie PIC programmer, a freshman in college).
We are utilizing a 18f45j10 pic for our school project, and we are having trouble in coming up a circuit programmer for it. The programmer circuit must be made by us (we are required to), and by reading this thread, I have learned that several pic series may be programmed by the <b>same</b> programmer circuit <b>as long as</b> the software used is designated for that specific PIC.
So what happened is that we reused our old programmer circuit (for the 16f877 in our earlier projects) on the 18f45j10, but failed to make the PIC work. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thx in advance!