Post by thread:[PIC] Trouble Programming PIC16f1503 with PicKit3

Hello, I just recently got a PicKit 3 and some of the new(ish) PIC16F1503 microcontrollers. I have the PIC hooked up correctly -as far as I can tell at least. Power, data, clock, etc. all are hooked up to the programmer on a solderless breadboard. When it comes time to program the MCU the programmer does not detect the device at all (device ID 0x00), when I put another MCU [a PIC16f690] in its place it works just fine. I've tried both LVP and normal programming modes in the IDE [MPLABX] to no avail. Just a note: I don't have any pull up/down resistors in place, but I don't believe their needed. Since I'm rather new to this programmer I must be making some mistake, if anyone has some tips or tricks to make this work it would be greatly appreciated. -- Jason Whit

Are you powering the PIC on the protoboard, or by the PK3 ? There is an option on MPLAB to power the PIC by the programmer. Regards, Sérgio On 18 May 2012 00:03, Jason White <spam_OUTwhitewaterssoftwareinfoTakeThisOuTgmail.com> wrote: {Quote hidden}> Hello, I just recently got a PicKit 3 and some of the new(ish) > PIC16F1503 microcontrollers. I have the PIC hooked up correctly -as > far as I can tell at least. Power, data, clock, etc. all are hooked up > to the programmer on a solderless breadboard. When it comes time to > program the MCU the programmer does not detect the device at all > (device ID 0x00), when I put another MCU [a PIC16f690] in its place it > works just fine. I've tried both LVP and normal programming modes in > the IDE [MPLABX] to no avail. Just a note: I don't have any pull > up/down resistors in place, but I don't believe their needed. > > Since I'm rather new to this programmer I must be making some mistake, > if anyone has some tips or tricks to make this work it would be > greatly appreciated. > > -- > Jason White >

At 05:03 PM 5/17/2012, Jason White wrote: >Hello, I just recently got a PicKit 3 and some of the new(ish) >PIC16F1503 microcontrollers. I have the PIC hooked up correctly -as >far as I can tell at least. Power, data, clock, etc. all are hooked up >to the programmer on a solderless breadboard. When it comes time to >program the MCU the programmer does not detect the device at all >(device ID 0x00), when I put another MCU [a PIC16f690] in its place it >works just fine. I've tried both LVP and normal programming modes in >the IDE [MPLABX] to no avail. Just a note: I don't have any pull >up/down resistors in place, but I don't believe their needed. > >Since I'm rather new to this programmer I must be making some mistake, >if anyone has some tips or tricks to make this work it would be >greatly appreciated. I would be tempted to pull the chip from the breadboard and just mini-hook clips to connect to its pins. Or: solder wires to a socket. I suspect that you may be running into capacitive coupling between the CLK and DATA pins - some plastic breadboards have extremely high capacitance between the rows. Regardless, it should take only a few minutes to try this out. dwayne PS - I am assuming that you didn't swap the clk & data pins on the chip. dwayne -- Dwayne Reid <.....dwaynerKILLspam@spam@planet.eon.net> Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax http://www.trinity-electronics.com Custom Electronics Design and Manufacturing

Hi. You have checked that the chip is supported by the PICkit3? It should be, but sometimes one need the latest support files and so on. > I have the PIC hooked up correctly -as > far as I can tell at least. Then tell us how! :-) Without knowing more (or seeing the actual setup) I'm guessing that you simply are doing something wrong... :-) Jan-Erik. Jason White wrote 2012-05-18 01:03: {Quote hidden}> Hello, I just recently got a PicKit 3 and some of the new(ish) > PIC16F1503 microcontrollers. I have the PIC hooked up correctly -as > far as I can tell at least. Power, data, clock, etc. all are hooked up > to the programmer on a solderless breadboard. When it comes time to > program the MCU the programmer does not detect the device at all > (device ID 0x00), when I put another MCU [a PIC16f690] in its place it > works just fine. I've tried both LVP and normal programming modes in > the IDE [MPLABX] to no avail. Just a note: I don't have any pull > up/down resistors in place, but I don't believe their needed. > > Since I'm rather new to this programmer I must be making some mistake, > if anyone has some tips or tricks to make this work it would be > greatly appreciated.

On 5/17/2012 7:03 PM, Jason White wrote: > Hello, I just recently got a PicKit 3 and some of the new(ish) > PIC16F1503 microcontrollers. I have the PIC hooked up correctly -as > far as I can tell at least. Power, data, clock, etc. all are hooked up > to the programmer on a solderless breadboard Do you have another 16F1503 chip that you can swap out ? Sometimes it can just be a bad chip. It doesn't happen often but it does happen. I had a dead 24X pic the other day and nothing I could do would make it work with the programmer, swapped it out and circuit works fine now. Mark