ICDU-40 slower then ICD2?

MGP · Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 57

Hey Jeff -- I'm glad you posted the information, it's always good to know another hardcore user's experiences.

I'm currently using an ICD-40S right now and I find it quite acceptable, I definitely like the CCS debugger much better than MPLAB (the primary reason I switched).

I think the numbers CCS quotes on the ICD2 vs. CCS ICD chart are pretty old. I know the ICD2 was dog slow back when I first tried it.

Oh, and I laughed really hard at the Simpsons quote (even though I didn't see your post as whining). Smile

Darren Rook · Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 287 Location: Milwaukee, WI

Try the ICD update that was released on April 9th. It has newer download code for PIC18 that has a significant speed increase.

Hans Wedemeyer · Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 226

CCS ICD-U40 programming PIC18F252 with 86% ROM used
18.9 seconds includes verify time.

Nothing wrong with that.

The ICD-2 is collecting dust and will soon be part of my spring cleaning sale (yes the one I promised last year and never got to it !) at eBay... along with a Promate II which is the biggest heap of crap Microchip ever made. And I'm dumping my ICEPIC2 ... ICEPIC2 is a good emulator for PIC16.

ICD-U40 Firmware is 1.25 Rev.#97