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1995 Microchip Technology Inc.
DS40115C-page 59
MTA85XXX
21.0
DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT
21.1
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
MPASM Assembler
MPSIM Software Simulator
C Compiler (MP-C)
Fuzzy logic development system
(
fuzzyTECH
MP)
21.2
PICMASTER: High Performance
Universal In-Circuit Emulator
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.
A
PICMASTER
System
configuration is shown in Figure 21-1.
Interchangeable target probes allow the system to be
easily
reconfigured
for
emulation
of
different
processors.
The
universal
architecture
of
the
PICMASTER allows expansion to support all new
PIC16C5X, PIC16CXX and PIC17CXX microcontrol-
lers.
The Emulator System is designed to operate on PC
compatible 386 (and better) machines in the Microsoft
Windows
3.x
environment.
Thus,
allowing
the
operator access to a wide range of supporting software
and accessories.
The PICMASTER has been designed as a real-time
emulation system with advanced features that are
generally found on more expensive development tools.
The AT platform and Windows 3.x environment 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 3.x 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
advantage of Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), a fea-
ture of Windows 3.x. DDE allows data to be dynami-
cally transferred 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 3.x, two or more PICMASTER
emulators can be run simultaneously from the same
PC
making
development
of
multi-microcontroller
systems
possible
(e.g.,
a
system
containing
a
PIC16CXX processor and a PIC17CXX processor).
The PICMASTER probes specifications are shown in
Table 21-1.