It's like making you buy a expensive product so you can taste a piece of food that you don't know if you'll like or not.

So, it's like a first date.

 

Curiosity is based $ 2 USB2422T

Curiosity for dsPIC33CK is based on dsPIC33CK256MP508. The USB2422T is for USB hub for access PKOB and USB-UART interfaces.

 

I found Curiosity or Pickit4 for $ 50.
You expect that when you have an evaluation kit burn out the microcontroller during the tests and change it.
in DM330030 Curiosity:



You will probably be able to connect another microcontroller through the pins (10)
But you also have to unsolder the microcontroller (1) which is very difficult if you only have a soldering iron.

PKOB 4 Is it the same as Pickit 4? I guess so....

For now,
I connected my dsPIC33CK to PicKIt2 as:


Reading the datasheet between dsPIC30F2020 and dsPIC33CK502 does not seem to be a big difference in programming.




Due to this similarity I will try to program it with PK2CMD (command lines for Pickit2),

selecting dsPIC30F2020 and Programming dsPIC33CK256MP502

Probably won't program the oscillator. Let's find out in which configuration the oscillator will be by default.

 

PKOB 4 Is it the same as Pickit 4? I guess so....

I don't know exactly but PKOB seems more like MPLAB Snap programmer to me. They do not support high-voltage programming.

But you also have to unsolder the microcontroller (1) which is very difficult if you only have a soldering iron

Unfortunately are this kind of PICs avaliable only as SMD parts

 

I think this is the HEX obtained by MPLabX 5.00

I programmed with MPLab X 5.00 and PicKit 2 dsPIC30F2020.
But when I change it with dsPIC33CK256MP502 it gives an error.

It probably doesn't recognize its ID.

So the PGD line is bidirectional..

So....
1. If I put a diode on PGD, I will make it unirectional (just write it, don't read it) and give it an ID from another microcontroller.

PGC and MCLR/Vpp can remain parallel to two microcontrollers.

Or,
2. I try to use PK2CMD (command line), maybe it doesn't read the uC ID.
If not, then the program should be modified as open source

 

PK2CMD failed an unknown microcontroller..


PICkit 2 Device Data File Editor

https://sites.google.com/site/pk2devicefileeditor/home




Where can I find that data?

 

I programmed with MPLab X 5.00 and PicKit 2 dsPIC30F2020.
But when I change it with dsPIC33CK256MP502 it gives an error

Memory organization and programming specifications these MCUs are different. You cannot use hex file produced for one type MCU on another type MCU. See this

 

The data must be extracted from that file.
But better the data taken out of the MPLABX. Does anyone help me?
Then he put the data here:


This program allows programming a microcontroller with PicKit2 that is not bin list.

But it takes a long time to extract data from MPLab X files.
One night I found this data in the MPLabX files, and then I didn't find it, I forgot where.

I think Microchip has increased sales of programmers, but decreased the use of these new PICs

There are many SMPS with Attiny85:
https://www.google.com/search?q=att...hUKEwjcgt-vgIbwAhWylIsKHfNVA08Q4dUDCA0&uact=5

But with dsPIC33F256MP508 I only found their presentation kits:
https://www.google.com/search?q=dsp...hUKEwiV7fW2gIbwAhUhiIsKHRyzBIIQ4dUDCA0&uact=5


I tried to recover my password on the Microhip forum to ask there, but I received a message that I was receiving mail on Mail and I did not receive it.

 

"I think Microchip has increased sales of programmers, but decreased the use of these new PICs"

Mr. D. Head is no longer with the company.

 

If PICkit4 seems to costly then is there MLAB Snap progammer for about half the price of PICkit4. Snap programmer programs Microchip LVP supported MCUs.

 

IMHO, pickit 4 is worth every penny. It’s the best programmer Microchip has made by far.