Pickit2 as a usb - serial converter

[Mosaic]

Hi all:
Does anyone have a link to the s'ware that does this?
https://www.sonsivri.to/forum/index.php?topic=20262.0

Or is there a way to save UART comms (from a PIC) to the pickit2 onto the PC?

 

[Ian Rogers]

What's your application???

The pickit2 is a logic analyzer as well... You can monitor TTL signals ( before the serial convertor ) to watch the signal!!

 

[Mosaic]

I've been trying to get a Pl2303 usb/serial cable to work reliably, but its dropping data @ 9600baud (8n1). I want to compare it to a known reliable solution to determine if the problem is with the PL2303 reliability. I have the HX/HXA prolific chipset.

 

[Ian Rogers]

Have you got a FT232R type handy!! I prefer these convertors to anything else...

 

[Mosaic]

I have the chip .I can build a board in an hour or so and...I'd need a driver on the xp side as well. Got a source for those drivers?

 

[JonSea]

The PICkit 2 GUI has the UART emulator and logic tool/analyzer. But a quick search of Microchip's website doesn't show a trace of it. They have been trying to kill off the PICkit 2 for a number of years but the PICkit 3 doesn't have the great additional tools.

 

[Mickster]

Ian.M has been unearthing all things PICkit2 on the Microchip Forum, in this link:
https://www.microchip.com/forums/m775322.aspx
In the midst of post #9, a link can be found to the PICkit2 Programmer Application v2.61 which I will link to from here as well:
https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/PICkit 2 v2.61.00 Setup A.zip

Regards.

 

[3v0]

We should make a sticky with the PK2 LA and serial tool code.

They also sold a version of the PK2, I think it was white, with code to generate stimulus and maybe debug I2C and maybe others. We should collect that and put it there tool

 

[Mickster]

The white one is the PICkit Serial Analyzer (PKSA) which does as you say.... I2C, SPI, USART, LIN, Microwire.

I have a few various Microchip product installs saved for myself and can provide them for a sticky if required?

I also have a few MPLAB 8 installs, going back to v8.00, but on my current very slow connection, uploading may be a problem.

 

[Mosaic]

Here is the source code for all Pickit2 versions
**broken link removed**

BTW ..the UART tool works fine as a TTL rs232 device over usb. Xmitted data @ 9600 baud from a PIC USART. Logged to txt file , imported to Excel CSV. No probs.!