18f4550

[mister_e]

What the heck happen on this forum since few weeks/months?

Guys, if you can't help, don't answer, don't waste your/our time and bandwith.

Even if this is a simple question, 18F4550 have tons of Configuration fuse to set. Can be enough to stop someone to use it.

There's really a lot of a s s kicking to do here

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ngeronikolos,

have a look at the following, OK, it's more than a LED blink, but this should give you some hints at least about the config fuses settings.

http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/show...ght=pic18f4550

HTH

[skimask]

What the heck happen on this forum since few weeks/months? Guys, if you can't help, don't answer, don't waste your/our time and bandwidth. Even if this is a simple question, 18F4550 have tons of Configuration fuse to set. Can be enough to stop someone to use it. There's really a lot of a s s kicking to do here

Because...even without setting config registers (I suppose depending on the programmer and any previous settings that might be 'locked in'), the '4550 will start up (as most newer PICs will) with a 1Mhz internal clock (depending on the PIC model), not perfect, but enough to get things up and running... especially the ol' "blinky led" type program.
And...You and I both know that the '628 blinky led program wasn't going to work as expected in the earlier post since there is no mention of the ADCON CMCON registers. This is all mentioned in the PBP manual under section 2.5, which is labeled I've Got Troubles, where it specifically mentions the comparator and the analog ports, not to mention the issues with RA4, all of which seem to plague SOOOO many people. But that assumes that the person has a copy of the book.
And as far as the pins being configured as inputs on reset, the HIGH and LOW statement for the 'blinky led' program should take care of that.

[mister_e]

i know you wanted to say CMCON for the 16F628

[Darrel Taylor]

Because...even without setting config registers (I suppose depending on the programmer and any previous settings that might be 'locked in'), the '4550 will start up (as most newer PICs will) with a 1Mhz internal clock

Except that the default config settings in the .INC files for these chips are for a 20Mhz crystal, using the PLL to get 48Mhz to both USB and CPU.

Maybe if you tell the programmer not to write the config settings it might .. stress might, come up with the internal oscillator, but NOT defining the required conditions, and hoping it does what you want, is obviously NOT the right way to do things.

And, while we're on the subject of the "right way to do things" ...

When someone asks a question on the Forum, the "right way" is to attempt to provide an answer.
Pointing them to Section 2.2 of the Manual (Your First Program), is just plain Rude!<hr>
Now, for that "Answering the question" part...
Oh, and let me add here that it's preferable to have actually tested the answers you give.
Pull out the 4550, plug it in a breadboard and make sure you're giving an answer, not more problems for the person to deal with.

In my case it's easy... Just pull out the mister_e 18F4550 USB Demo prototype (minus a few LED's) from
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?p=31405
(Yup, I keep them.)

Which then allows me to present the following post, with great confidence that it'll work. Because I've actually done it.
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[Darrel Taylor]

Nikos,

If you haven't already, it's best to comment out the default oscillator settings in the 18F4550.inc file in the PBP folder, I'm sure you've done that before with other PIC's ...

Then you can set the options in your main program.
Here's a possibility for blinking an LED on PORTA.1 with a 4550 using the Internal Oscillator @4Mhz and your original code ...

'18F4550 with Int OSC Blinky

@   __CONFIG   _CONFIG1H,  _FOSC_INTOSC_XT_1H

DEFINE OSC 4         ; CPU runs @ 4 Mhz
OSCCON = %01100010   ; 4 Mhz Internal Oscillator

;DEFINE OSC 8         ; CPU runs @ 8 Mhz
;OSCCON = %01110010   ; 8 Mhz Internal Oscillator

ADCON1 = $0F         ; Disable Analog inputs

loop:
    High PORTA.1 'Turn on LED
    Pause 500 ' Delay for .5 seconds
    Low PORTA.1 'Turn off LED
    Pause 500 ' Delay for .5 seconds
Goto loop ' Go back to loop and blink LED forever

End

Keep in mind that the internal oscillator can't drive the USB module. But you can add a crystal to drive the USB and still run the CPU on Internal. Your choice.

HTH,

[ngeronikolos]

Thanks to every one that want to help and share with us a piece of his
(or her) experience.

According to Darrel and his piece of his program, I have a problem.
I used to use Micrcode studio Plus for 16f628.
Now with the 18f4550 I need the MPLAB.So, I download the latest version of it and set it up to me laptop.
I did what the microEngineering Labs says about the :
--The PICBASIC™ and PICBASIC PRO™ Compilers can now be used with Microchip's MPLAB®!--
http://www.melabs.com/support/mplab.htm

After all that I try to compile the 18F4550 with Int OSC Blinky that Darrel post and I get two errors Error[118] look at the attached photo

Please advice
Nikos

[mister_e]

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