Hi
Is there anyway to allow the PICKIT2 programming checksum to be accessible to the code in the MCU?
I'd like to autodisplay a firmware version on MCU bootup.
I was hoping for a way for the value to be automatically visible to the code . I observe that the PICKIT2 checksum appears to literally be a hex sum of the code bytes.
Perhaps there's a way to emulate this in the code itself and self generate the pickit2 checksum?
I kinda want to use the checksum as my own ref for code versions as it's a reasonably foolproof way to identify different code versions.
Blue:
I am debugging several thousand lines of code in its destination hardware device. I need an automated way to track which 'version' is running . The code displays a 2 byte firmware hex # on bootup on a 4 dig. display. This firmware # is set in eeprom. In the long run when things are debugged etc, I can use that Firmware revision system, but right now I want a convenient automated way to differentiate and compare code running in multiple prototypes.