the Max-Pic SPEC

[patrick]

The last Max-Pic is one very powerful universal PIC trainer board for every firmware and work at 12Mhz!

Max-Pic SPEC:

* Use PIC18F2455/2550 MCU chip
* Come with HID BTL, can upgrade via USB port directly
* Come with the 8pin FPC port, can program any firmware to PIC chip via our FPC programmer
* Come with one standard 6pin ICSP port, can program by any programmer that build in standard ICSP port
* Come with one RESET/BTL combo button, can use for reset the PIC or enter BTL mode for upgrade
* Come with 28pin testing pin, very easy to link to the PIC chip every pin and test
* Come with 24 pin selector array, can set almost PIC pin to LED status or pull down to GND
* Come with 19 LEDs display array, can show these pins working status
* Come with the last "F0" LED demo legit firmware

The Max-Pic looking:


The Max-Pic backside looking:


How to insert the FPC cable to the FPC port
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How to link to FPC programmer:


Connect to PC and start to program:


For use as Pic-Fun / iLLNESS_schematics and XBOX360* JTAG TIAO USB SPI Interface board:
Set the "TX" pin to GND for enter the BOOTLOADER mode

[patrick]

For use as some schematic that need RB5:
Set the "RB5" pin to GND for enter the BOOTLOADER mode


For use as "Custom-Bootloader-Hex-MP-Schematic" board:
Set the "RB7" pin to GND for enter the BOOTLOADER mode



If without this yellow sticker , then mean it's not a official product.


The Max-Pic come with the "F0" LED demo firmware when selling, so it's legit product.
When you get this kit first time, you should put it to USB port directly, to see it works or not.
The LED demo flow:
[1] first all LEDs will turn on and keep 2 seconds around.


[2] then all LEDs will turn off, and start to blinking one by one, and loop.





Now you can try to enter the BTL upgrade mode, just press the RED RESET/BTL button, you should see the RB4 and RB5 blinking very fast,
and PC can detect one "HID compliant device", now is in the BTL mode already, the firmware updater should can detect your kit also.



The retail packing:


The PCB layout:

[patrick]

will upload more details soon.

[keropi666]

nice, this is suitable for more complicated projects too!

[modpro]

nice, this is suitable for more complicated projects too!

Yes, you can even use it as a xbox360 nand flasher

[hdcm]

This reminds me a D2sun product!

[frankreynolds]

Awesome can't wait to get mine. Just one question Patrick how much flash memory does it have ? 16? 32? 64? 128?

[remainnameless]

AWESOME! This looks really exciting to mess around with.

I could have really used this last week when I was JTAGing my Xbox 360 through a DB-25 port... lol.

Thanks for the write-up Patrick.

[Bolec]

Wow, looks godly . Now I might consider collecting money to get xbox 360 and have both consoles: ps3 and x360. Can't wait to get my hands on it. Thanks for giving us information about this product.

[jaekid]

now this looks like a quality product we have here. now i'm anticipating the test kit a little more. it can do quite alot with doubling as a JTAG device.