Ooh my, just when I was feeling guiltier and guiltier for harboring ongoing predilections for PIC microcontrollers even though there was no decent linux/OSS toolchain, it seems Microchip have come to their senses and released a cross platform IDE.
I came across this while checking out the newly released dsPIC based arduino shield and arduino IDE compatible chipKIT Uno32.
http://new.eetimes.com/electronics-products/processors/4215826/Microchip-uses-NetBeans-for-IDE-to-support-for-Linux--Mac-OS-and-Windows
http://eecatalog.com/8bit/2011/05/17/microchip-unveils-open-source-integrated-development-environment-with-cross-platform-support-for-linux-mac-os-and-windows-users-2/
Joy of joys. This was one of the few remaining reasons to have a windows partition....
I reckon the dsPICs have awesome potential for SDR applications, such as beaconing/WSPR/QRSS. Hmmm, I really should finish off my SDR cube now and then play with the code a bit.
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