On 2013-03-05 11:56 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:20 PM, veegee <veegee@veegee.org> wrote:
>> Is there a way to use REAL ICE to program a chip without MPLAB?
>> Preferably from the command line in Linux? I'm using GPUTILS to write
>> some PIC12 code, so I'm not going to be using MPLAB, but as far as I
>> know, REAL ICE can only be accessed from the MPLAB IDE.
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> Under Linux (and Mac OS X ), install MPLAB X and you can then use mdb.sh.
> Ref: http://www.microchip.com/forums/m661149-print.aspx
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> Under Windows, you have a better one. Install MPLAB and there
> is a command line utility here: RealICECMD.exe
> C:\Program Files\Microchip\MPLAB IDE\Programmer Utilities\RealICE

That's odd, the Programmer Utilities folder isn't on my computer at all
(searched the hard disk to be sure). I reinstalled MPLAB X to eliminate
the possibility of missing files, but still no success.

But since the MPLAB X stack is written in Java anyway, I can reverse
engineer the interface and write my own tool if it really comes down to
it. Hate to go through the hassle though. I wonder if they published the
source code to the REAL ICE interface.

Also, the REAL ICE is attached to a headless Linux box, so I'd need a
way to use it via a command line.

I can't believe there's no proper command line interface to their
top-of-the-line programmer...
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