Jerry, Carmacon has updated their WinPep programming software to
version 2.03 and it has fixed the issue I mentioned below. CVASM v5.8
now works fine with their software and 16F876/877 devices. Thanks,

   - Tom

I wrote:
>   Jerry, I think you found the problem. I was mistaken in saying the
>release software had a problem as it does not support the 16F877...
>(I've been using beta for quite awhile). There are known issues with
>EEPROM in the current beta software and that was next on my `to test'
>list. The error I get is "Data out of range error". I'll contact Carl
>at Carmacon and get back to you. Thanks,

>   - Tom

At 04:06 PM 11/22/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Tom:
>Could you be more specific about the Carmacon software "will not read the
>files?"
>Does it have specific complaints?.....crash.....read bad data?.... I do not
>know much about their software.
>
>IIRC, we updated the EEPROM data statements in the OBJ files between those
>two releases.  The earlier release assumed 64 bytes of EEDATA (WRONG!). The
>F87X devices have 128 or 256 bytes.
>
>It could be that the Carmacon software is choking on the extra EEDATA
>statements or that we mis-encoded it in the HEX statements. (this is the
>first device series that uses more than 64 bytes).
>
>Could you send HEX files to me? One with your code assembled with 5.6 and
>one assembled with 5.8?
>
>I'll post this to the Parallax list as well so the people there do not
>think I ignored you :)
>
>
>At 02:59 PM 11/22/99 , you wrote:
>>   Jerry, I've been beta testing the Carmacon programmer software and when I
>>use CVASM v5.8 to program various 16F877 *.OBJ files, the programmer will
>>not read the files. This is with the Carmacon release and beta software.
>>When I go back to CVASM v5.6, everything works fine. I have'nt talked to
>>Carl at Carmacon yet.
>>
>>   Note, v5.8 did fix the problem of calling routines in the 1000h and
>>1800h banks.
>>
>>   I've posted this to both the Parallax and MIT lists. Thanks,
>>
>>   - Tom


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Tom Handley
New Age Communications
Since '75 before "New Age" and no one around here is waiting for UFOs ;-)