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:
> 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.
>
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