[sdiy] dsPIC fun board

[Csaba Zvekan]

On Jan 19, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Jason Tribbeck wrote:

> 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.


I looked at Microchips PICKIT2 page and there is a new Firmware. Maybe  
that one works . I also have to mention that I did have some problems  
calibrating the "clone" and had to download the firmware via ICSP a  
few times. Which was a bit of a pain.
I think the real PICKIT2 is somewhat more reliable than my chinese  
clone.

Csaba
>
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> Jason Tribbeck
>
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