Bob, You may also consider the PICkit 2, it has many enhanced features which an ICD2 doesn't have. When Walter Kicinski was still at Microchip, He had many improvement done on both MPLAB and PICkit 2 PC software. I got some clients using our BB0703 and BB0703+(s) with the CMD for product line too. Due to the open-source structure, there are some new features can be added to PICKit 2 from source code level. Even though It is up to the vendor and Microchip to release those improvements to the public or not. But the beauty is: the source code and schematic is there, you can modify them and suite your own purpose as you can. We submitted our 4M byte Programmer-to-Go source code to Microchip in the middle of March 2009 (code was finalized around Jan-2009 and some heavy tested had been carried by our lab and product line. ), Microchip PICKit 2 team had integrated the C# source code into the V2.61 releases. So, now the Programmer-to-go GUI can support max. 4M bytes SPI flash memories. Hopefully, the firmware code will be add to next major PICkit 2 firmware releases. There will be some post announce our 512K, 1M and 4M byte edition of BB0703 in the near future at our forum: http://www.auelectronics.com/forum/index.php/board,7.0.html Best Regards, Funny N. Au Group Electronics, http://www.AuElectronics.com http://www.AuElectronics.com/products http://augroups.blogspot.com/ ________________________________ From: Bob Axtell To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 11:56:36 AM Subject: Re: [PIC] ICD2 as programmer : Why isn't it releasing reset afterprogram? We are thinking about it. On 6/30/09, Olin Lathrop wrote: > Bob Axtell wrote: >> Mike, go back to MPLAB v7.4. >> >> The ICDC2 has never worked correctly, for me, on any version after >> 7.4 or 7.6. > > Or even better, ditch the ICD2 and get a RealICE. Those flaky random > disconnects seem to be gone, and they're cheap enough. > > > ******************************************************************** > Embed Inc, LittletonMassachusetts, http://www.embedinc.com/products > (978) 742-9014. Gold level PIC consultants since 2000. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist