Since the introduction of MPLAB ICD 3 In-Circuit Debugger at the Embedded Systems Conference October 2008 in Boston, Microchip has shipped nearly 10,000 units of this next-generation ICD.

The programming dsPIC devices MPLAB PM3 offers a number of powerful features. They are either with MPLAB IDE and a PC or in a stand alone mode.

The PICkit 3 debug express works with 8- and 16-bit PIC Microcontrollers (MCUs) and 16-bit dsPIC Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), and is expected to work with 32-bit PIC MCUs at a later date.

MPLAB IDE has enjoyed many years of evolution cracking Microchip’s popular catalogue of micro controllers and digital signal controllers.

Welcome to this tutorial on MicroChip’s MPLAB starter kit for dsPIC digital controllers or DSCs. The starter kit is an all in one tool and introduces you to the speech and audio processing capabilities of Microchip’s dsPIC DSCs.

Tips and tricks to help speed up your project development.

The debugging allows to check the value of variables at various points in the program and to check the routines requested results. MPLAB IDE (Integrated Development Environment) has been created by Microchip and it is an integrated tool-set for the development of embedded applications.

Out of the box code is quite often a God send gift, especially when handling a new micro. But sometimes ......
I started mucking around with a dsPic4011 few months ago, using MPLAB and C30. I was quite happy since I was able to run an "hello world" application in a very short time. Not only did the MPLAB and C30 installation go smoothly but coping and pasting code available on the C30 peripherals library, programming uart1 and timer1 was a piece of cake!