16Fxxx Fuse configurator

[Stephen Moss]

I am sure most people have tried the excellent Fuse configurator written by JohnB, however as it does not support non 18F devices and I needed one to do just that I have written my own. I primarily wrote this for my own use but I could make it available if there is a demand for it.

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[fanie]

Hi Stephen,

Good idea ! Of course there is a demand for it. And thanks, very generous of you

[Toley]

Who didn't want a usefull free tool ? Is it a plugin or stand alone ?

Anyway you can make many people happy

[pmcleod]

Sounds great to me, I always find it a real pain in the ar-m

[Citius]

You'll have my gratitude as well Stephen...

Carl

[pic-ignorant]

I hate fuse settings I'd be very grateful TY

[Stephen Moss]

Who didn't want a usefull free tool ? Is it a plugin or stand alone ?

At the moment it is stand alone, I have only been playing with Visual Basic express 2008 for a few weeks and most of it was writing this thus I am learning as I go so if anyone with more experiance of VB can help me out with the odd problem that would be useful.
Despite the topics heading it works with all the 10F, 12C, 12CE, 12F, 16C, 16CE, 16CR, 16F, 16HV and RF devices PDS currently supports.

There are a few things that still need doing if I can figure out how such as...
1) Device Selection, it would be nice to have a selector like JohnB's instead of the current system but I have not figured out how to do that yet.
2) Tool Tips for fuse name explanation (partially implimented) - unfortunately the PPI files for non 18F devices do not contain fuse descriptions, mostly fuses are either on or off so the fuse name is a sufficient indicator but some fuse names means a different things on different devices so you might have to refer to the data sheet
3) Code Optimisation to read the PPI file faster
4) Conversion to a Plug in

I don't know how long this will take me, I will release a beta sometime next week for those who want to use it now.

Note: It only works with PPI files, not the older .LPB or .INF files so you must be running one of the new Betas or Release candidates.

[johngb]

Shame you aren't using Delphi otherwise we could have shared some code.
How long is it taking you to parse the PPI files? To get the 18F data it takes a couple of seconds on my machine. I guess your parser has to be rather more complex than what I am doing.

If I can help at all PM me.

[Stephen Moss]

Hi John,
it only takes as couple of seconds to parse the files I just though I could speed it up as each fuse is a self contained module with each one opening and parsing the PPI file which meant 20 file reads. Not very efficient but good for debugging.
I did try changing it to a single read on Monday but it did not appear to speed things up or cure the "flicker" problem and it introduced a couple of new problems so I have changed it back for now.

I have attached a Beta version (stand alone, not a plugin) for anyone who wants to try it as it stands and offer feeedback, operation is similar but not idential to that of the 18Fxxx configurator so anyone using it might want to read the PDF first but it is easy enough to work out.
Once unzipped click on Setup to install.

[Toley]

Hi Stephen,

It didn't work for me (under Vista). The program has installed (after the long update of the .net framework 3.5) and after choosing a PPI file I got this error message. Sorry it's in french but I think you can understand.