topic Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview. in LabVIEW

Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ranjeet_Singh — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 06:51:26 GMT

I need to select/browse the hex file from labview and need to dump on PIC IC. Is there any way to acheive this using labview? What are the different hardware we need for that. I do have a ICD installed in my PC.

What I need is for browsing and dumping the code I should use LV UI.

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ranjeet_Singh — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 07:07:07 GMT

What is the command line utilities for? How can I use it here?

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Schwede — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:32:31 GMT

Hello,

with the command line utilities you can program (erase, verify ....) a processor with a command line string (show manual).

I think it´s quit easy if you use the labview command prompt vi or a batch file.

Hope this help you.

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ralok — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 13:42:40 GMT

Example using the ICD3CMD.exe with system exec.vi call:

Simply call the ICD3CMD.exe with /? from cmd for full list of programing options.

edit: As for hardware you would need an ICD3 or PICkit3.

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ranjeet_Singh — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 02:36:24 GMT

Do I need batch file?

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ranjeet_Singh — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 02:40:35 GMT

@Ralok wrote:

Example using the ICD3CMD.exe with system exec.vi call:

Simply call the ICD3CMD.exe with /? from cmd for full list of programing options.

edit: As for hardware you would need an ICD3 or PICkit3.

Thanks for the reply. I have ICD3. Do I need to set a path? What is the input to the path input?

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ranjeet_Singh — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 05:48:51 GMT

I am using

C:\Program Files\Microchip\MPLAB IDE\Programmer Utilities\ICD3\ICD3CMD.exe / PIC16F684 /M/V/F "A.HEX"

Here A.HEX is my hex file. But it says illegal parser?

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ranjeet_Singh — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 06:02:36 GMT

when I use

cmd/c ICD3CMD/PIC16F684/V/M/F "A.HEX" ----------------then it says

Device not found

Initialize Failed !!!

But device selection is proper

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ralok — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 06:32:11 GMT

@Ranjeet_Singh wrote:

Do I need batch file?

Not necessary, but you could do it with a batch file aswell.

@Ranjeet_Singh wrote:

Thanks for the reply. I have ICD3. Do I need to set a path? What is the input to the path input?

The path would be the folder where ICD3CMD.exe is located.

@Ranjeet_Singh wrote:

when I use

cmd/c ICD3CMD/PIC16F684/V/M/F "A.HEX" ----------------then it says

Device not found

Initialize Failed !!!

But device selection is proper

Device not found can also refer to the ICD3 itself, i've had some problems with that myself. Try and see if you can program the device using the MPLAB ide first. If that works it should work fine with ICD3CMD aswell.

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ranjeet_Singh — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 06:38:49 GMT

I tried. its working with IDE but not with command prompt..Can you share your VI in 2011?

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ralok — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 06:50:16 GMT

@Ranjeet_Singh wrote:

I tried. its working with IDE but not with command prompt..Can you share your VI in 2011?

Sure, here you go.

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ranjeet_Singh — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:05:55 GMT

Here is mine. Let me know if any mistake is there

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ranjeet_Singh — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:11:11 GMT

After I run your VI. it says "Enter Target power"

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ralok — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:22:44 GMT

right, the /V argument needs a spesified voltage, altho this argument is only needed if you don't have an external power supply for the chip your programing.

If you don't need the ICD3 to supply power just remove this argument.

If you do need it to supply power: Change it to "/V5" or "/V3.3" depending on what voltage your PIC needs. (setting the wrong voltage may damage the PIC)

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ranjeet_Singh — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:28:00 GMT

When I am programming from ICD then I am using supply from ICD as I dont have power supply. One more thing as soon as I select programmer as ICD3 then status LED glow in ICd but nothing such happens when use LV.

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ranjeet_Singh — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:45:12 GMT

After I change to V5 then it asks for enter hex file

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ralok — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:54:07 GMT

Added 3.3V supply (Change it to 5V if needed)

edit: had a space between /F and the file path, should be work now.

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ranjeet_Singh — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:19:26 GMT

no it not..Try something else

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ralok — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:23:51 GMT

What errors do you get with the last VI i attached?

Re: Interfacing Microchip ICD3 With Labview.

Ranjeet_Singh — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:49:08 GMT

It says

Device not found

Initialize Failed !!!

and I channged it to 5.000 later but same thing