Speeding up PicStart+

[Felix Althaus]

Hello all!
This may a little bit OT, but perhaps some of you have a hint...

I use MPLAB v6.20 with PicStart+ (firmware v3.11.0) and it takes about 12 seconds to program a PIC16F84A. I think this is too slow.
Is there a way to speed up the programming cycle?

Many thnaks
Felix

[PCM programmer]

If you're not using all available ROM, you can speed it up
by programming just the ROM that you're using, instead of
all ROM. Do this by setting the Program Memory End
Address so it's just past the end of your program.
Find the end of your program by going to this menu:
View / Program Memory
When the Program Memory window pops up, scroll down
to find the hex address of the last location used.
Example: 0x179
Then go to this menu:
Programmer / Settings / Memory Ranges
Then set the End Address to 0x1FF.
(ie., round off the address to the next higher multiple of 256
bytes, to allow yourself a little room to make changes
while debugging the program)