CCS and Microchip ICD2 support

octal · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 39

Hi,
last version of CCS C compiler seems to support ICD2 natively.
- Has anyone tried it?
- Does it support it via USB or RS232 only? I personnaly did not found any information on how to activate it! I have my ICD2 (Original recent version of Microchip one with flashable firmware, not a clone) and I can debug using MPLab via USB, but I did not found anywhere to activate it in the last version of CCS C IDE !!!

Anyone can help please ?

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horkesley · Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 48 Location: Essex UK

Hi Octal,

I have tried CCS with the ICD2, both serial and USB, but no luck.

There does not appear to be any documentation about this.

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octal · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 39

Hi,
there seems to have a new link to download software for support of ICD2 and RealIce in the CCS IDE ... on the download page http://www.ccsinfo.com/downloads.php

I'll try and let you know.

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octal · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 39

Hi,
I downloaded the plugin from "MPLAB® ICD2 & REAL ICE Interface" link on the previous indicated page (my last post), and when I install it installs and says that it can not strat app because "MPMapTrace.dll not found" on your system.

When I start now the debuger intreface from PCWH IDE in the config I can see the Microchip ICD2 listed, but not seems to be able to communicate with it correctly. It says that "MpMapTrace.dll" is not found. Anybody can tell from where this dll comes ? (MpLab8 perhaps????)

Has anyone succeeded at making it to install and work ?

PS. Under MPLab (I use v7.50) I can correctly connect and debug using my ICD2, and it's a true original Microchip ICD2 not a clone.

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octal · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 39

No Luck. I did not succeeded at making it to work.
Anyone tested it ?

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Darren Rook · Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 287 Location: Milwaukee, WI

Try MPLAB 8.0

If that doesn't work please e-mail CCS support.
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octal · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 39

ok Darren I'll try that this evening and let you know.
Thank you for your support.

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octal · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 39

edgar · Guest

Hi,

I downloaded the plugin for MPLAB ICD2, and now it's listed on the debug window, but I get this error message every time I enable the debugger:

"ICD unit does not have CCS firmware loaded"

The question is: Can I download this firmware to the MPLAB ICD2?

By the way, I'm using MPLAB v8.00 and CCS C compiler v.4.032,

Thanks in advance,
Edgar

PCM programmer · Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 21708

Guest · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:20 pm

Hi,

I've read everything that I can find on ICD2 with PCW, but I haven't been able to make it work yet. I have the demo MPLAB 8.01, IDE 4.067, and PCM/H/D4.066d. I have downloaded and installed the ICD2API dlls multiple times, but I can't see any change within the CCS IDE
- using Debug/Enable Debug I get the "Can't load FT2dxx Drivers" error.
- Debug/Debug Windows/Configure still shows 'No Communication'.
- Tools/Debug shows only the PCW option, which if selected, does not appear to do anything.
- Selecting Debug/IDE shows the ICD connection dialog, but only for COM3, and gives 'Cannot detect ICD type'.
- I don't see anything new in Options/Tools dialog.
- The posts make reference to there being difficulties 'starting' the ICD2 software, but all I see in the directories are DLLs - is there a Windows service that is supposed to be started? Or an executable somewhere else that needs to be started before/during/after the CCS IDE?

Posts seem to be making reference to a dialog that I'm not seeing at all, so I thought maybe it was the separate ICD program, but that shows just the same connection problem of only COM3 and nothing about ICD2. None of the posts seem to say where the dialog referred to actually is.

I've probably overlooked something really obvious - but can someone point me in the right direction?

I really need to quickly evaluate CCS as an alternative to the standard Microchip compiler (it looks like it might have more library support for what we are doing), but we have lots of ICD2 units around and I can't even begin until I can get CCS working with ICD2...

Maybe there is a straightforward 'how to' somewhere that includes what I must be missing?

Thanks for any and all help!

ps In case it matters, I am suffering under Vista...

mindstorm88 · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 102 Location: Montreal , Canada

i do have the same problem as previous "guest" , anybody has a solution ????

Guest · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:39 pm

Today I'm trying to debug with ICD2. I got mplab8.00 CCS 4.068 and ICD2 clone, when I press enable debugger the same error code FTDXXX drivers but this error is because you have selected an ICD debugger, when I change the debugger to mplab icd2, there occurs another problem ERROR CODE 85DE0185.

Really I think this is because I don't have a micro connected, but if you know the answer, it is really appreciated.

thanks

PCM programmer · Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 21708

If you have problems with Microchip ICD2 and MPLAB, you should ask
them in the Microchip ICD forum:
http://forum.microchip.com/tt.aspx?forumid=49
Or, if your ICD2 clone has a forum, ask about it in that forum.