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Hello,

PPP needs an Update for using PIC 8 & 16 Bits together

PPP version 3.9.12.26 needs a little update.
I have used this program, download from matrix website without problems for Flowcode 3 and 4, C4PICsV4 course, and ASM4PICs course (all installed).

After I installed Flowcode 4 for PIC24, I get the screen:
"matrix PICmicro Programmer Unrecognised chip command line: <dsPIC30F4012>" when I use PPP.

Workaround:

After inspecting the C:\Program Files\Matrix Multimedia\Flowcode PIC24&dsPIC V4\Tools\PPP folder, I found some more files there than you will find in the C:\Program Files\Matrix Multimedia\Common\PPPv3 folder.

I copied all the files from the C:\Program Files\Matrix Multimedia\Flowcode PIC24&dsPIC V4\Tools\PPP folder to the
C:\Program Files\Matrix Multimedia\Common\PPPv3 folder (answer replace files = YES).
after this all works fine.

Is there a possibility to update the PPP 3.9.12.26 version on the Matrix Multimedia website, so that these files are included without the copy paste action mentioned above?

Lieuwe

Hello Lieuwe,

Thanks for the info and workaround.

One of the issues to be aware of is that the PPP program currently performs two tasks - it is a configuration tool and a PICmicro programming tool. We are currently rationalising it and moving the PICmicro programming features into our mLoader tool. Therefore in the future, PPP will be simply a configuration utility. This rearrangement in this functionality should be complete for the release of Flowcode V5.

The version of PPP released with the dsPIC/PIC24 version of Flowcode was intended to be used just as a configuration utility for that variant of Flowcode.

However, the workaround you have suggested should be ok for anyone else experiencing the problem.