pickit4 not showing up in atmel studio 7

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Posted by super7800: Wed. Apr 17, 2019 - 01:20 PM
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i am completely new to avr, and just bought my first programmer, the pickit4 isp. it is listed as working with Atmel studio and avr chips, but i cannot seem to get it to work. by not work i mean it is not listed in tools and simulators, or any other menu. it says that the only available programmer is the simulator. i tried the solution here: 

http://microchip.force.com/microchipknowledge/articles/en_US/Workaround/Atmel-tools-not-listed-in-Atmel-Studio-7-in-Windows10

but it did not work. i know the physical device is fine because it detected perfectly in mplab. i know i'm probably doing something obviously wrong, but having no other experience with atmel studio i am at a loss as to how to get it to work. i've looked online but no other solutions seem to be relevent as i've found very little about getting the pickit 4 working in atmel studio. any help would be appreciated. thanks.

 

i'm running windows 10 64-bit.

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Posted by clawson: Wed. Apr 17, 2019 - 01:23 PM
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I hope this is not going to sound condescending but note that the list in AS7 is dynamic - it only lists the devices it can actually "see" at the moment the list is shown. So the device has to be plugged in, switched on an d working for it to be listed. Of course to achieve that means it has to be connected to USB so a first step in trying to diagnose the issue is simply to check it is being seen as a USB device - there's a utility for Windows called usbdeview.exe that can be used for this.

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Posted by gchapman: Wed. Apr 17, 2019 - 01:26 PM
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Enable EDBG in MPLAB PICkit 4?

edit : MPLAB® PICkit™ 4 Debugger Firmware - Developer Help

 

"Dare to be naïve." - Buckminster Fuller

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Posted by super7800: Wed. Apr 17, 2019 - 01:43 PM (Reply to #2)
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i downloaded usbdeview and when i had the afformentioned "fix" enabled got this:

 

i then removed the fix and it appeared like this (it still does not work in atmel studio):

 

 

so it looks like to me that it is showing up as a usb device. any suggestions? i know windows 10 and atmel studio don't like each other (from what i read).

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Posted by meolsen: Wed. Apr 17, 2019 - 02:35 PM
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Start by ensuring that the PICkit 4 is in 'EDBG mode', i.e the VID is 0x03eb. This can be done in MPLAB by doing any operation with the PICkit 4 with an AVR as the target device. It should _not_ appear as a Microchip WinUSB Device.

:: Morten

 

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Posted by kabasan: Wed. Apr 17, 2019 - 02:47 PM
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In the case of me, once PICkik4 was recognized by MPLAB, it became possible to recognize in AtmelStudio after the firmware was updated.

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Posted by super7800: Wed. Apr 17, 2019 - 05:13 PM (Reply to #6)
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thank you all, i managed to finally get it to be detected in atmel studio 7. i launched it in mplab x ipe (i had been using ide version) and connected to it and suddenly everything started working. thanks!

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Posted by gchapman: Wed. Apr 17, 2019 - 07:15 PM (Reply to #7)
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smiley

super7800 wrote:
i launched it in mplab x ipe (i had been using ide version) and connected to it and suddenly everything started working.

Setting Up A Programmer - Developer Help

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Connecting the Tool

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At the output window, it shows messages such as downloading Firmware, bootloader, Fireware type, suite version, and so forth. 

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"Dare to be naïve." - Buckminster Fuller

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