icd u64

[electroinfo]

hello all,

I buy a icd u64 and I can't program a pic12F509, so I try to update the firmware of the programmer. Unfortunately the PC will not detect the ICD U64. When I try to program the software it does not detect the ICD U64 and it asks me to choose COMM 3 but the box is USB. The LED on programmer stay red. I think I have something damaged, but the programmer is new. I'd like to be able to retrieve it. Someone can help me start with CCS?

Thank you in advance.

[Douglas Kennedy]

The u64 programmer requires a usb driver for windows systems. The driver must be installed first. Download the driver from CCS and install it. If all is well then in device manger you will see under usb controllers CCS-ICDU64. Now if you have win7 there often will be an issue until a few years pass and the newest Microsoft OS is fully debugged. U64 does work with Win2k and WinXP.

[ckapsalis]

Hi electroinfo,

My experience suggests that the CCS IDE/C Compiler and ICD-U64 work fine with Windows 7 Professional 32 bit and 64 bit.

If you look at the ICD-U64 FAQ, you'll notice a section at the bottom indicating that some PIC micro controllers cannot be debugged with a standard version of the ICD-U64. The PIC12F509 is listed as one of those micros. So, that may be the problem. Here's the link:

http://www.ccsinfo.com/faq.php?page=connect_icd

I would contact CCS technical support and indicate that you just bought the product and tell them the PIC part number that you are targeting. Hopefully, they will be able to help you out.

Good luck.

[Will Reeve]

I use ICD64 under windows 7 just fine...however as someone pointed out to me in another post the 12F509 has fuse programming issues with ICD. I had to move to my old PicKit2 which works perfectly (also under win7 btw).

[Tomcat]