How to use PICKIT2 under linux?

TRONICLK · Post by **TRONICLK** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:27 am

This is one of the common questions that people used to ask me. Is PICKIT2 linux supported. Yes, PICKIT2 is actually linux supported but only a few people know about it. I thought to share with you the required information to work out PICKIT2 under linux.

Make sure you have following System requirements.
- A working Linux installation
- GCC
- G++
- make
- libusb
- libusb development libraries

Compiling pk2cmd

- Go to Linux section of Microchip PICKIT2 page and download PK2CMD V1.20 Linux & Mac OS X Source Code with Makefile
I have uploaded current version 1.20 here.

pk2cmdv1.20LinuxMacSource.tar.gz: (217.94 KiB) Downloaded 294 times

- From the command-line, cd into the source code directory

- Execute make linux

- Copy following files to another directory
* pk2cmd
* PK2DeviceFile.dat
* PK2V023200.hex
* ReadmeForPK2CMDLinux2-6.txt
* usbhotplug.txt

Now you can use and redistribute the files in that new directory.

Check your installation by using pk2cmd ? command.

Sample command line to program a chip

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pk2cmd -PPIC16F877A -Fexample.hex -M

If you like to use a GUI for this program, you may consider using Dwarf.

I have uploaded current files from this project.

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dwarf.pdf: (91.3 KiB) Downloaded 309 times