Tutorial 17 - PIC Programming (Mac OS X)
  • Tutorial 17 - PIC Programming (Mac OS X)

Tutorial 17 - PIC Programming (Mac OS X)

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This tutorial shows how to use iCP01 and iCP02 under Mac OS X.


This tutorial shows how to use iCP01 and iCP02 under Mac OS X with Terminal or GUI form. Support is NOT provided for this Mac OS X programming. 

The following information is quoted from 'Readme For PK2CMD MacOSX.txt'

 

Supported Operating System:

MacOS 10.4 and 10.5, on Intel or PowerPC based machines.

 

Software installation (Terminal form):
  • After extracting the files into your chosen directory, open the MacOS Terminal in 'Applications > Utilities' to run 'PK2CMD'.
    • !!IMPORTANT!! Make sure the Terminal shell is set to 'bash", or help options with '?'will not work.  Select 'Terminal > Preferences', click "Execute this command"and type "/bin/bash" in the textbox.
  • Using sudo, copy the file pk2cmd to '/usr/local/bin' and the filePK2DeviceFile.dat to '/usr/share/pk2'.
  • Your user PATH environment variable should include /usr/share/pk2. If using bash, edit the file .bashrc (/bin/bash) to include:  PATH=$PATH:/usr/share/pk2  export PATH

  • NOTE: If .bashrc does not exist: Create in the home directory using "pico .bashrc" and add the PATH linesabove. (Use "pico ~/.bashrc" to create in the home directory regardless ofthe current working directory. 
  • Ctrl+X then Y (return) to save.
    Other command line interfaces should have a similar mechanism for settingyour PATH variable.

 

Command Line Option:

The following commands are available in the command line interface:

Options Description 
C   Blank Check Device 
E   Erase Flash Device
 F<file>  Hex File Selection
 G<Type><range/path>

  Read functions                                            

Type F: = read into hex file, path = full file path, range is not used           Types P,E,I,C: = ouput read of Program, EEPROM, ID and/or Configuration Memory to the screen. P and E must be followed by an address range in the form of x-y where x is the start address and y is the end address both in hex, path is not used 
 K Display Hex File Checksum 
 L<rate>

Set programming speed

<rate> is a value of 1-16, with 1 being the fastest
 M<memory region>

Program Device 

Memory regions: 

P = Program memory, E = EEPROM, I = ID memory

C = Configuration memory

If no region is entered, the entire device will be erased & programmed.   

If a region is entered, no erase is performed and only the given region is programmed.
 P<part> Part Selection. Example: -PPIC16f887 
 P Auto-Detect in all detectable families 
 PF List auto-detectable part families 
 R Release /MCLR after operations 
 U<value> Program OSCCAL memory, where: <value> is a hexidecimal number representing the OSCCAL value to be programmed. This may only be used in conjunction with a programming operation.
 V<value> Vpp override 
 X Use VPP first Program Entry Method  
 Y<memory region>

Verify Device:

P = Program memory, E = EEPROM, I = ID memory

C = Configuration memory                         

If no region is entered, the entire device will be verified
 Z Preserve EEData on Program 
 ? Help Screen


Each option must be immediately preceeded by a switch, which can be either a dash <-> or a slash </> and options must be separated by a single space.
Example:

PK2CMD /PPIC16F887 /Fc:mycode /M                  

PK2CMD -PPIC16F887 -Fc:mycode -M

 

Command Line Example:

PK2CMD /PPIC16F887 /FC:PROJECTPROGRAM.HEX /MPC

PICkit2 set to a PIC16F887. File PROGRAM.HEX is loaded. The device's program memory and configuration memory are programmed.

 

 Software installation (GUI form):

  PICkit2 GUI (OSX)
  • Mac OSX 10.5 is required to run it along with the latest version of Java.
  • You need to downlaod the PicKit2-Programmer-GUI-1.2-OSX.zip and copy pk2cmd and PK2DeviceFile.dat files into '/bin' folder [NOT /usr/local/bin], even if you have manually installed pk2cmd before.
  • To do that, open a Finder window and press CMD+SHIFT+G then type in '/bin'. 
  • Drag and drop the 2 files, enter your admin password and you're done.
  • To run the software, launch the .jar file.
  • For more information, please visit Microchip Forum: Link
  • Please feel free to contact François Gilbert (gosmonaute@gmail.com) for any help or have comments on the GUI.

 Download:

  • PK2CMD V1.20 Mac OS 10.4 & 10.5 Universal Binary: .zip
  • PicKit2-Programmer-GUI-1.2-OSX: .zip
  • Latest PIC devices list, PK2DeviceFile: .dat
  • pk2cmd MD5 hash: 60947cf9ec4d96581dd82bcad51b66dc

 Special Thanks to:

  • François Gilbert for providing the GUI for pk2cmd
  • cubytus32 for providing updates
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