CCS ICD USB OR SERIAL one ?

octal · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 39

Hi,
1- I'm planning at buying the CCS ICD, but I'm a little confused. On CCS siye, the comparison between ICD2 from Microchip, ICD(RS232) and ICD(USB) shows that USB version is slower than RS232 one

kender · Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 768 Location: Silicon Valley

rwyoung · Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 563 Location: Lawrence, KS USA

I've used all three and frankly, I find myself going back to use the ICD2 from Microchip. Since I use MPLAB as my editor/environment and their debugger SW only works with the ICD2 (at least for me) I tend to use the ICD2. My current ICD2 is of the earlier generation with the FX2 USB chip. I understand the newer ICD2s are using USB enabled PICs inside.

Frankly, the programming time difference, and it never seemed that much different, is inconsequential to me. I am more interested in a seamless workflow.

For a production environment, I wouldn't use any of these three programmers as they do not have the ability to verify and different Vcc/Vdd levels (assuming the programmer is powering the circuit).

And none of the three are terribly well protected from the sort of screwups that can happen during initial developement.
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