Building the project with the MPLAB C18 CompilerThe
free student version, or commercial version of the C18 compiler can be used for building the various projects (SBC44EC, SBC45EC, SBC65EC, SBC68EC...). They both work fine. Some optimization in the student version will be disabled after 60 days, but this only increases your code size by about 10 to 15% -
the compiler still works fine!. The license even states that the free student version can be used for commercial purposes! The downloaded source code contains MPLAB projects for using this compiler to build projects for various hardware versions of the boards.
There are conflicts when trying to use a different version of the C18 compiler to build a project! You have to build a project with the exact version of the C18 compiler as stated on the source code download web page!
Building the project with the Hi Tech PICC18 compilerThe Hi Tech PICC18 compiler can also be used for compiling the projects. The downloaded source code contains MPLAB projects for using this compiler to build projects for various hardware versions of the boards.
Programming the SBC65EC and SBC68EC boardsThe SBC65EC and SBC68EC boards are shipped with bootloaders, and don't require a PIC programmer to be programmed. See product documentation for details on using the bootloader. If a programmer is used, the user must
take care not to overwrite the bootloader! For details, see
http://forum.modtronix.com/index.php?topic=944.0