ICD2 + PICDEM2 plus

[Guest]

I have downloaded newest support for ICD-U from ccs site.
After instalation i have tryed to run icd FROM CCS ( not MPLAB ) and this is the message that i get:

ICD error:
Could not load function:DBG_DOWNLOAD_TO_TARGET1. Make sure your are running the latest version.

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q.1
How to solve this ?

q.2
Do i have to use MPLAB or can i make whole ICD programming & debugging thru CCS ?

[PCM programmer]

The first thing you need to answer is, what ICD do you really have ?


Do you have ICD2 from Microchip ? If so, then use MPLAB (7.0 or 7.01).

Or,

Do you have ICD-U from CCS ? If so, then use the PCW IDE.

[Guest]

Im using ICD from microchip so the only option is to use MPLAB...
I will try with ccs plugin for mplab...

But then again, if i use the second option how to program some chip on picdem2 board?

[PCM programmer]

I'm still not sure what ICD you have. I don't know whether you're
using the term "ICD" in a generic sense or if that is the specific name
of your debugger.

To me, if you say "Microchip ICD" it means you have the older, obsolete,
orginal ICD "1" from Microchip. Is that really what you have ?

Or do you have the modern ICD2 ?

If you truly have the original ICD from Microchip, then you can
re-program it with CCS firmware and use it with the CCS PCW IDE.
See this thread, with reference to Haplo's post.
http://www.ccsinfo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19355&highlight=icd+ccs+firmware

[Guest]

I have ICD2 from microchip ( the new one ) with usb and rs232 but when i install all drivers ccs can not recognize ICD2...

I read the link you have send in last post, but i will need some additional help ( maybe some tutorial) how to set ICD2 with CCS IDE...

[PCM programmer]

I don't know for a fact if ICD2 can be invoked directly as a
debugger in PCW. I suspect not. I suspect that you can only use it
from within MPLAB. MPLAB can be configured as a "Tool" under PCW.
Then you could, I assume, run ICD2 via MPLAB at that point.
But that must load really slowly, especially if it's MPLAB vs. 7.01.
I suspect that's not what you want to do.

Someone who is very familiar with PCWH will have to answer
the question of "Can you use ICD2 directly from PCW or PCWH ?"