Arduino 32bits cards available from Digilent

Got my chipkit UNO32 today. Worked well and blinked the led as it was powered up. I was very surprised when i was not able to program my UNO32, MPIDE reported:

avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0180

         0x00 != 0xff

avrdude: verification error; content mismatch

Due to some firmware/chip timing problem that has been known for quite a long time now, the programming failed. Not shure how long my unit has been sitting on the shelf, but i thougt this should have been caught at factory QA. Not a biggie if it could easily be upgraded with the new (downloadable) firmware, but it turn out that i need an ICSP programmer - which i don't have. A second inconveience is that the UNO32 is missing the ICSP connector, the connector itself is not soldered onto the board. The chipkit wiki had a page describing the problem, couldn't find anything about it on the diligent website.

My UNO32 unit has a barcode label "D387905" that i suppose is the serial number.

Are Diligent still shipping units with outdated firmware?

Is this a common problem?

Got my chipkit UNO32 today. Worked well and blinked the led as it was powered up. I was very surprised when i was not able to program my UNO32, MPIDE reported:

avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0180

         0x00 != 0xff

avrdude: verification error; content mismatch

Due to some firmware/chip timing problem that has been known for quite a long time now, the programming failed. Not shure how long my unit has been sitting on the shelf, but i thougt this should have been caught at factory QA. Not a biggie if it could easily be upgraded with the new (downloadable) firmware, but it turn out that i need an ICSP programmer - which i don't have. A second inconveience is that the UNO32 is missing the ICSP connector, the connector itself is not soldered onto the board. The chipkit wiki had a page describing the problem, couldn't find anything about it on the diligent website.

My UNO32 unit has a barcode label "D387905" that i suppose is the serial number.

Are Diligent still shipping units with outdated firmware?

Is this a common problem?

Hi Cris,

I have used my UNO32 for several months and have not had any problems using the USB interface with the software provided by the Diligent web site.  I have not used the MPIDE, but mine worked fine just from the IDE.

DAB