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DS30412B-page 143
PIC17C4X
16.0
DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT
16.1
Development Tools
The PIC16/17 microcontrollers are supported with a full
range of hardware and software development tools:
PICMASTER
Real-Time In-Circuit Emulator
PRO MATE
Universal Programmer
PICSTART
Low-Cost Prototype Programmer
PICDEM-1 Low-Cost Demonstration Board
PICDEM-2 Low-Cost Demonstration Board
MPLAB
Integrated Development Environment
(IDE)
MPASM Assembler
MPSIM Software Simulator
C Compiler (MP-C)
Fuzzy logic development system
(
fuzzy
TECH
MP)
16.2
PICMASTER: High Performance
Universal In-Circuit Emulator with
MPLAB IDE
The PICMASTER Universal In-Circuit Emulator is
intended to provide the product development engineer
with a complete microcontroller design tool set for all
microcontrollers in the PIC16C5X, PIC16CXX and
PIC17CXX families. PICMASTER is supplied with the
MPLAB
Integrated Development Environment (IDE),
which allows editing, “make” and download, and source
debugging from a single environment. A PICMASTER
System configuration is shown in Figure 16-1.
Interchangeable target probes allow the system to be
easily reconfigured for emulation of different proces-
sors. The universal architecture of the PICMASTER
allows expansion to support all new PIC16C5X,
PIC16CXX and PIC17CXX microcontrollers.
The PICMASTER Emulator System has been designed
as a real-time emulation system with advanced fea-
tures that are generally found on more expensive devel-
opment tools. The PC compatible 386 (and better)
machine platform and Microsoft Windows
ment was chosen to best make these features available
to you, the end user.
The PICMASTER Universal Emulator System consists
primarily of four major components:
Host-Interface Card
Emulator Control Pod
Target-Specific Emulator Probe
PC-Host Emulation Control Software
The Windows operating system allows the developer to
take full advantage of the many powerful features and
functions of the PICMASTER system.
PICMASTER emulation can operate in one window,
while a text editor is running in a second window.
PC-Host Emulation Control software takes full advan-
tage of Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), a feature of
Windows. DDE allows data to be dynamically trans-
ferred between two or more Windows programs. With
this feature, data collected with PICMASTER can be
automatically transferred to a spreadsheet or database
program for further analysis.
Under Windows, as many as four PICMASTER emula-
tors can be run simultaneously from the same PC mak-
ing development of multi-microcontroller systems
possible (e.g. a system containing a PIC16CXX pro-
cessor and a PIC17CXX processor).
3.x environ-
FIGURE 16-1: PICMASTER SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
Windows 3.x
Common Interface Card
PC Compatible Computer
Power Switch
Power Connector
PC-Interface
In-Line
Power Supply
(Optional)
5 VDC
PICMASTER Emulator Pod
Interchangeable
Emulator Probe
PC Bus
90 - 250 VAC
Logic Probes
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