NavMicroSystems
- 28th April 2005, 23:39
Yesterday my first PIC died!
It was a 16F187A on one of my development boards.
It had been reprogrammed (using the MicroCode Loader) many many many times.
The problems started with the Loader not being able to access the PIC.
So I took the PIC off the board, plugged it onto the programmer, reprogrammed it with the loader code.
This worked fine for a few runs, then again I had to reprogram the loader.
Yesterday MPLAB told me "Programming ERROR"
I guess this was the end of the life of this brave PIC.
@Steve,
we talked about the problem of Loader Code being corrupted.
Obviously it was not a problem of the Loader, it was the PIC.
It was a 16F187A on one of my development boards.
It had been reprogrammed (using the MicroCode Loader) many many many times.
The problems started with the Loader not being able to access the PIC.
So I took the PIC off the board, plugged it onto the programmer, reprogrammed it with the loader code.
This worked fine for a few runs, then again I had to reprogram the loader.
Yesterday MPLAB told me "Programming ERROR"
I guess this was the end of the life of this brave PIC.
@Steve,
we talked about the problem of Loader Code being corrupted.
Obviously it was not a problem of the Loader, it was the PIC.