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Does the BasicAtom Pro One have built in code protection to prevent reverse engineering a program?

Thanks.

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--scifiguy

Highly unlikely. Code is protected by setting some configuration bits in the processor that "lock" the FLASH memory areas and prevent reads. Studio doesn't have access to these config registers. You could submit an email to BasicMicro Tech Support and ask them to set these bits and lock the code. That's one PIC, however, and if you want to do this as a commercial enterprise, you'd have to have them program your chips in the future. And you'd have to trust them not to read the Pro24 themselves. You could have them sign an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement), which gives you some legal recourse if you can prove they ripped you off.
I'd say at this point you wait and see what they have to say when they read this here or contact them in an email or phone call to Tech Support.
Later.

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kenjj
http://blog.basicmicro.com/
http://kjennejohn.wordpress.com/

Actually, you can't read the chip back using any hitachi compatible readers because they can only use boot mode which erases the chip before it lets you read/write it. Also before writing a new program the entire user flash area is erased. We have heard no reports of anyone being able to reverse engineer another persons program. I can't say it's impossible but even given direct access to the binary data it would be nearly impossible for anyone(even me) to get usable source code from it. Assuming someone could get the binary all they could do is directly clone the program.

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Nathan Scherdin
Basic Micro - Robotic Technology Evolved

Fantastic! Exactly what I need.

Thank you.

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--scifiguy