Target don't works without ICD-U40

ljmnunes · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 13 Location: Brazil

Hello!

I have a old target circuit with 16F873A, made without ICD/ICSP facilities. The original code works fine, so the hardware is ok.

Recently I bought the ICD-U40 and make some changes in the source code. To connect PB6, PB7, MCLR, GND and VCC lines to ICD, I made a small PIC connected on the original PIC's socket and the PIC in a new one on this PCB. The MCLR have 47Kresistor to VCC.

I was surprised because the new code runs only with the ICD connected, even when I remove the #device icd=true line.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

Laercio

Haplo · Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 659 Location: Sydney, Australia

- Make sure you haven't broken the ground connection to any of the PIC's GND pins

- Make sure you don't have the fuse DEBUG in the #fuses

- Lower the value of the resistor on the MCLR pin to 22k and see if it works.

If the problem persists, give us more information about your circuit.

ljmnunes · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 13 Location: Brazil

- Make sure you don't have the fuse DEBUG in the #fuses

I think the problem is there, but it is funny because the original source code have the fuse NODEBUG set in.
I changed it to DEBUG and now it works very well...

Thanks for your help.

Laercio