Connecting programmer to MicroCode Studio

[Darrel Taylor]

Download the latest PICkit2 GUI, and the "PICKit2 Command Line Interface" from Microchip.
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/id...cName=en023805

Extract all files from PK2CMD to your "C:\Program Files\Microchip\PICkit 2 v2" folder.
It's the same folder as the PICkit2 programmer software.

In Microcode Studio View | Compile and Program Options... | programmer tab,
click Add New Programmer, select "Create a custom programmer entry" then click "Next".
Enter any name you wish to call it and click "Next".
Enter pk2cmd.exe as the "Programmer Filename" and click "Next".
Click the "Find Manually" button and point it to C:\Program Files\Microchip\PICkit 2 v2 and click "Next".
Enter this parameter line

-pPIC$target-device$ -f$hex-filename$ -M -R -T -h2

Then click Finished.

Pressing Compile and Program or F10 in MicroCode Studio will now do it all.

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Descriptions of those, and additional command-line parameters can be found in the "Readme For PK2CMD.txt" file from the .zip above.
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[tcbcats]

Darrel,
I set up my programmer as you directed and still get the same results...
The PICkit2 application starts and and just shows that it found the connected PIC... thats all. I have to manually click the putton and then select the hex to get it to program the target PIC.
Just before the application starts the programmer shows activity but that is maybe just reading the target PIC to confirm a connection.
I tried many of the other commands in the readme file with no luck.
It looks like the command never actually runs or has some other error.
The PICkit2 application gets started from the programmer path you enter in the IDE so its the script that is not working.
My new USB U2 came today and it works with the script... so I guess I will scrap the PICkit... too bad the price is right and it does work if manually directed. It also works as stand alone.
Maybe MEL has some other info on how to get the PICkit2 to work with the script.

[Darrel Taylor]

Are you sure you entered pk2cmd.exe as the Programmer Filename.
It opens a DOS window, not the PICkit2 GUI program.

If it's opening the GUI, something's definitely not right.
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[iw2fvo]

Hi to you all !
I do have to launch the MPLAB in order to programm the PIC directly from the MCS. At the moment I use the MCS and MPASM and then i call the MPLAB to program the chip. I will like to do it in a single action.
Thanks for any suggestion .
Regards,
Ambrogio
IW2FVO
North Italy

[rmteo]

See posts #8,12,14,17.

[tcbcats]

Darrel,
I changed the programmer exe and now I get a dos window for a short instant... then it goes away... It is so fast that I cnnot see anything in the window.... programmer does nothing and target PIC is not read or programmed.
So...the dos is starting but not reading any script.

Are you actually using the script and one click programming from the IDE?
I have configured my IDE to place my compiled code in the PICkit2 folder.

[Darrel Taylor]

The -h2 parameter causes it to pause for 2 seconds before closing the window.
But since you didn't do the "Programmer Filename" step, I assume you didn't do the parameters either.

What I showed above was a series of steps that must be completed for it to work. ALL steps must be completed exactly as shown. Miss one, it won't work.

I have configured my IDE to place my compiled code in the PICkit2 folder.

Not sure how you did that. As far as I know, that's not an option in Microcode Studio.
You can set the default folder that comes up for a File|Save, but if you're saving everything in your PICkit2 folder, that's just plain silly.