PICDEM™ 2 PLUS USER’S GUIDE
2004 Microchip Technology Inc.
DS51275B-page 5
Chapter 2. Getting Started
The PICDEM 2 Plus may be used as a stand-alone board with a preprogrammed
device, with an In-Circuit Emulator (ICE) or with an In-Circuit Debugger (ICD). For a list
of PICmicro microcontroller compatible ICEs or ICDs, please refer to the Development
Systems Ordering Guide or the Microchip Third Party Guide.
2.1
PICDEM 2 PLUS AS A STAND-ALONE BOARD –
PREPROGRAMMED DEVICE
The PICDEM 2 Plus may be demonstrated immediately by following the steps listed
below:
• Place the preprogrammed sample device in the appropriate socket on the
PICDEM 2 Plus board.
• Place a jumper on J6 (to enable the LEDs).
• Verify that the board is set up for a 4 MHz canned oscillator (i.e., no jumper on J7;
a 4 MHz oscillator in Y2; Y1, C4 and C5 are empty).
• Apply power to the PICDEM 2 Plus. For information on acceptable power sources,
To reprogram the sample device, the following will be necessary:
1.
Program source code.
User source code may be used to program the device or, if this has previously
been done, the sample program may be restored from the file on the included
CD-ROM.
2.
An assembler, such as MPASM™ assembler (available with MPLAB IDE), or a
compiler, such as MPLAB C18 (PIC18 devices only).
Source code must be assembled or compiled into a Hex file before it can be
programmed into the device. Microchip Technology’s MPASM assembler or
MPLAB C18 C compiler may be used. Both are compatible with MPLAB IDE.
However, other assemblers/compilers may be used. For a list of these PICmicro
®
MCU compatible language tools, please refer to the Microchip Third Party Guide.
3.
A device programmer, such as PRO MATE
®
II, MPLAB
®
PM3
(1)
,
PICSTART
®
Plus or MPLAB
®
ICD 2 (programmer functionality available with
MPLAB IDE v6.00 or greater).
Once the sample program is in Hex file format, a programmer may be used to
program a Flash device. Microchip Technology’s PRO MATE II device
programmer, PICSTART Plus development programmer or MPLAB ICD 2 may
be used. All are compatible with MPLAB IDE. However, other programmers may
be used. For a list of these PICmicro MCU compatible programmers, please refer
to the Microchip Third Party Guide.
If the code protection bit(s) have not been programmed, the on-chip program
memory can be read out for verification purposes.
Note 1: The MPLAB PM3 device programmer will be available in Q2 2004. Check
the Microchip web site (www.microchip.com) for further information.
