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ThePIC18C601andPIC18C801microcontrollersarethefirstmembersofMicrochip’sPIC18familywithnoon-chipprogrammemory.TheyofferthePIC18archi-tecture,withtheabilitytousedifferenttypesandsizesofexternalprogrammemory(upto2Mbyte)toexactlyfitmostapplications.Inmodernembeddedapplications,wherefeaturesandfunctionalityareconstantlyevolving,FLASHmemoryisanidealchoiceforexternalprogrammemory.Fieldupgradabilityisalmostalwaysdesirableinthesesys-tems,too.MostcommonlyavailableFLASHdevices,however,disablereadaccesswhilebeingprogrammedorerased.Theyalsorequirespecialcommandsequencesforprogramming,andhavelongereraseandwritetimesthanreadtimes.Asaresult,systemsusingFLASHtechnologyrequireeitherasecondmem-orydevice,oramicrocontrollerwithbuilt-inmemoryspace,inordertoimplementfieldreprogrammability.PIC18C601/801controllersdothisbyallowingpartofon-chipdatamemorytobereconfiguredasprogrammemory.MAN819ImplementingBootloaderFirmwareforthePIC18C601/801ROMlessMicrocontrollersThisapplicationnotediscussesthegeneraldesignAuthors:GaurangKavaiyaandNileshRajbhartirequirementsforbootloaderfirmwareinaROMlessMicrochipTechnologyInc.controllersystem.Toillustratethekeypoints,afully-featuredreferencedesign,withaninterfacetoexternalhostsoft……