[sdiy] dsPIC fun board

[Jason Tribbeck]

Hi,

Csaba Zvekan wrote:

> Hi Jason,
> 
> 
> >> You still need some sort of download hardware though. Since I use an
> >> MCHP ICD2 I don't know what the alternatives are.
> >
> > I use PICKit2 on my Mac natively - works very well (although I've
> > not ventured above 18F series yet; the dsPIC are listed as being
> > supported by the command line program [pk2cmd]).
> 
> 
> When I tried to download the first firmware I tried it with my PICKIT
> 2 clone . Unfortunately it didn't work on this particular µCU maybe
> some later PICKIT2 firmware can handle it . I think it was due to the
> voltages that it needed to create .
> But with the ICD2 it was working just fine.

I don't know about how different the clones are; however, 2.10 of pkcmd was released reasonably recently (I checked yesterday), and there was a big mention of dsPIC33 support.
-- 
Jason Tribbeck