PCWH 4.086 and the MACH-X programmer.

[Jim Hearne]

Another annoying bug.

Install 4.086, then ideutilsupd , setup_icd and finally setup_ccsload

I've both programmers.

The Mach-x button in PCW will be greyed out as the path in tools still refers to mach-x.exe not the newer ccsload.exe

So change the file name in options>tools to
"C:\ccs\4.086\ccsload.exe" "-T%H" "%D"

You can then click on the button but if you are using ICSP programming like me it will fail as it defaults to using the ZIF socket.

According to the ccsload help there is a command line option ”+ICSP” to specify using ISCP mode.
Add that to the command line in the PCW tools and it greys out out the machx button again !
Tried various combinations of the command line and found out that changing the default

"C:\ccs\4.086\MACHX.exe" "-T%H" "%D"

to

"C:\ccs\4.086\ccsload.exe" "-T%H"

Will at least load the ccsload software from within the ide but you have to tell it the device type (thats what %D is supposed to do but then it doesn't do ISCP) so adds extra stages to the process.

Anybody any idea what the correct command line is for ccsload to get it to program with the machx without prompting.

Somehow debug mode manages to work ok via the mach-x, or at least until it crashs but thats another story.

Jim