Hi Rob, It does sound interested, but excuse me for asking dumb questions, where/how do I find your file, and where do you recommend I learn about simplejson?
Why wouldn't production status be of interest? Thank you, William On Oct 2, 9:55 am, Rob Hamerling <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > For a sanity check of the device files I wanted to know (among others) > how many ADC channels every PIC support, without having to browse all > the datasheets. I remembered that the number is listed in the product > overview on the site of Microchip. There I noticed an option to download > the list as Excel file. While I do not use Excel, I downloaded the list > and it appeared to be a regular CSV (Comma Separated Variables) file. > With a little script I extracted the numbers I needed.... > > But I thought this list can also be of use for other Jallib purposes. So > I extended my script a little and created a file in simplejson format > (being the jallib standard to store such basic information). See for > yourself if it is useful or can become useful for library development. > > Some comments: > > 1. I removed some of the 'columns' which (I think) are not relevant for > Jallib, for example production status, price, reference to a product > decription. > > 2. The list (at the Microchip site) is not complete list. I selected > 'Flash type PICs', but many LF variants are missing, and also some older > PIC type (even the 18F452, but not the 16F84A!) > Adding the missing PICs for which we provide device files would probably > have to be done manually... (who volunteers?) > > 3. Names could be abbreviated, maybe I'll do that for a next version. > The file becomes now very large (approx. 500KB) because of the many long > names (the file ZIPped is less than 10KB!). > > Comments and suggestions are welcome! > > Note: I have thought to make it a wiki, but I considered that would have > no value added compared to the list of Microchip. > > Regards, Rob. > > -- > Rob Hamerling, Vianen, NL (http://www.robh.nl/) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
