Dear all,

I'm new here and I would like know if you can help me.
I'm using a program with a pic16f871 (but I have no space) and I change the pic to a pic16f877.
This program controls a compact disk player and is working very well.
Now I whant to use the space I have in the pic16f877 using it's linker.
The program have no errors but do not work al all.
Can you please give me some ideas to work with.
Thank you.

 

Your question is not so much clear........
Post you code with the name of your development tools i.e.. in which compiler and IDE you are using and as well as the programmer,schematic and current PIC you are working with (I think its 16F877A).

 

Hello,

I only want to know what is the cost of this PIC kit??

I am not hijacking thread...!!

 

Hello,
I am not hijacking thread...!!

No big deal for me at least. But yes you are hijacking thread. As you are posting a question in a thread that have nothing to do with the OP question.....
Why did you not start a new thread instead. That is the correct thing to do best for the OP(of this thread) and you

 

I am not hijacking thread...!!

Kind of, so always try to post in a new thread.....

I only want to know what is the cost of this PIC kit??

I don't think we mentioned any kind of PIC kit here.

 

The program have no errors but do not work al all.
Can you please give me some ideas to work with.
Thank you.

First you may want to carefully review each spec sheet for the two processors and see if you need to make any changes for A to run in B.

But as that is the obvious first step you already skipped, drop the code into the debugger and see what fails.

 

Hello,

I only want to know what is the cost of this PIC kit??

I am not hijacking thread...!!

Well, yes you ARE hijacking.

And you don't mention which PICKit you want, there is a version 1 2 and 3.

Finally, I doubt you own the youTube site.

 

Ok. If you to this site http://bergrans.despinnerij.nl/ you will understand my problem.
The pic16f871 is full and I whant do something more, so I pick de pic16f877 or 877a,
and with the 877 it works using the linker of the 871. The problem is when I whant to use the linker of the 877 it compiles wirh no errors but simply does not work at all.
I do not know assembler very much but I know how to read a program and understand it very well (I too do some cobol programing) but something is note ok.
Hove I was more clear.
Thank you.

 

What do you mean by the word "linker" of the 877 or 871?
Edit: I am guessing by downloading the file you mean linker script file.
(I have never used a linker script file; not even positive if that is the correct name for file CDP-1_16f871.lkr)

Tim S.

 

I tried to fix linker script and ran into a problem that is not fixable without a lot of knowledge of the program code.
(It happened after using new linker script and new inc file.)

The program used shared memory (memory in same address across all banks.)
The 877a does not have enough shared memory.
Look for "UDATA_SHR" in the asm files.
Edit: Look at page "register file map" in the datasheets.

Note: This is a fixable problem; but requires more time and effort than I am going to spend on learning this area.

Edit: Attached modified Linker Script (This the first time I have worked with Linker Scripts; it likely has a mistakes in it.)

Tim S.

 

Ok. If you to this site http://bergrans.despinnerij.nl/ you will understand my problem.

That link is not working,may be I should try after some time.

 

That link is not working,may be I should try after some time.

Direct link to source code
http://bergrans.despinnerij.nl/source/source_20080520.zip

Tim S.

 

Am I the only one to have problem with that url ? I cant even download the source code zip file link provided by stahta01.

I can access everything expect that url..........

 

Do you know why the author do not use the PIC supplied lkr file. To me this sounds somewhat dogy. Why do you not use Microchip supplied lkr file for 16f877 chip instead. Usealy you do not have to even think about the lkr file. If you just create a new project MPLAB will sort this out for you.
Is it the code size or the RAM size that give you problems?

 

@debjit625: The source is multiple asm files with an lkr and inc file.

The code is not really that well written(but it is many times better than the Students I grade); and, the site is well done. The person appears to be mainly an hardware expert, who wrote some software.

He has had several people build using his directions; so, I consider his a very well documented project. I have not read much of the site.

Tim S.

 

Doctor, it hurts when I do this.

Then don't do that!

No, you don't need to play with the linker script. You need to define the processor, and there are macros to do that in MPASM.

Go and open up "16F877ATEMP.ASM" which you will find in "C:\Program Files\Microchip\MPASM Suite\Template\Code" Take a look at lines 33 thru 36.

THAT is what you need to insert into your .asm file, replacing the existing definitions for list, #include, and __CONFIG. Note your config parameters may be different!

Also go up to the menu and click into Configure | Select device and select the device you are actually using.

Delete the linker reference from the project, MPASM will pick the correct linker.

See if that works, then report back.

 

@ErnieM
MISQUOTING WHAT I POSTED IS A STUPID THING TO DO; GOODBYE STUPID LYING IDIOTS!!!

Tim S.

Well, yeah...

http://forums.ni.com/t5/util/emoticonspopuppage# Huh. What is this. We only try to help here.

 

OK, I stand corrected, it DOES need a custom linker script. After changing the target processor, cleaning up the duplicate definition of RC5, the dam thing built clean.

I have no idea if it works.

 

OK, I stand corrected, it DOES need a custom linker script. After changing the target processor, cleaning up the duplicate definition of RC5, the dam thing built clean.

I have no idea if it works.

NO, it will very likely NOT work; if you fix the Linker Script to match the processor there is NOT enough shared memory (same address in all banks).

Tim S.

 

It could also be a bank selection problems. Instead of using the the bank0 and bank1 macros. It is better to use the banksel directive in MPLAB ASM. That makes the code more portable. If you are going to port this code to 16f877(a). The first step would be to ensure that you use the correct memory bank throughout the code.