MPLAB Integrated Development Environment

MPLAB Integrated Development Environment

What is MPLAB IDE?

MPLAB Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a free, integrated toolset for the development of embedded applications employing Microchip’s PIC^® and dsPIC^® microcontrollers. MPLAB IDE runs as a 32-bit application on MS Windows^®, is easy to use and includes a host of free software components for fast application development and super-charged debugging. MPLAB IDE also serves as a single, unified graphical user interface for additional Microchip and third party software and hardware development tools. Moving between tools is a snap, and upgrading from the free software simulator to hardware debug and programming tools is done in a flash because MPLAB IDE has the same user interface for all tools.

MPLAB IDE features include:

Flexible customizable programmer’s text editor

Fully integrated debugging with right mouse click menus for breakpoints, trace and editor functions

Tabbed editor option or separate source windows

Recordable macros

Context sensitive color highlighting for assembly, C and BASIC code readability

Mouse over variable to instantly evaluate the contents of variables and registers

Set breakpoints and tracepoints directly in editor to instantly make changes and evaluate their effects

Graphicalproject manager

Version control support for MS Source Safe, CVS, PVCS, Subversion

Free components

Programmer’s text editor

MPLAB SIM, high speed software simulator for PIC and dsPIC devices with peripheral simulation, complex stimulus injection and register logging

Full featureddebugger

MPASM™ and MPLINK for PIC MCUs and dsPIC DSC devices

HI-TECH C PRO for PIC10/12/16 MCU Families running in lite mode

CCS PCB C Compiler

Labcenter Electronic’s Proteus VSM spice simulator

Many Powerful Plug-Ins including

○ AN851 Bootloader programmer

○ AN901 BLDC Motor Control Interface

○ AN908 ACIM Tuning Interface

○ KeeLoq support

○ Data Monitor and Control

Simple, powerful source level debugging

Auto alignment of breakpoints after source code modification

Mouse-over variable inspection

Drag and drop variables to watch windows

Watch variables, structures and arrays

Mixed source code/disassembly view

Stack symbolic return label display

Automatic single-step “animate” feature

Pass counts and break on PIC18F, PIC24 and dsPIC file register R/W for MPLAB ICD 2

Step-Out-Of function

Custom hot keys

Powerful simulator stimulus generator

Trace to source correlation to compare real time data collected with original source code and comments

Built in support for hardware and add-on components

MPLAB C Compilers (free student editions available for download)

MPLAB REAL ICE™ in-circuit emulator

MPLAB ICD 2 and MPLAB ICD 3 in-circuit debuggers and engineering programmers for selected Flash devices

PICkit 2 and PICkit 3 Debug Express economy debug/programmers

PICSTART Plus development programmer

MPLAB PM3 device programmer

Third Party tools, including HI-TECH, IAR, Byte Craft, B. Knudsen, CCS, Micrium, microEngineering Labs, Labcenter, MATLAB, Segger

A host of low cost starter boards, demonstration and evaluation kits.

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