Brian Boles (BBoles@CCMAIL.MICROCHIP.COM) wrote:

>Hmmm...  Maybe take the MPSIM simulator and roll it underneath of the new fully
>windows version of PICMaster software to create an integrated design environmen
 t
>where emulation and simulation were interchangeable.  Would we do something lik
 e
>that?
>tick tock tick tock .....


    Quit teasing, Brian... You guys already showed MPLAB at the Embedded Systems
    Conference.

    For those people who weren't there, here's a quick overview of MPLAB:

    It combines an integrated editor (based on PFE) with an enhanced PIC-Master
    interface.  Source-code level debugging is MUCH better than PICMASTR's, and
 the
    simulator is integrated, too (well... it will be soon; my pre-release copy
    doesn't include it).  It handles C source-code as easily as Assembly, AND...
    (drumroll, please...) IT REMEMBERS THE CLOCK SPEED!

    MPSIM has always been the most accurate, complete, and up-to-date PIC simula
 tor
    available, but it was hampered by an unbelievably bad user interface.  Now t
 hat
    it has the same interface as PIC-Master, it blows all the third-party simula
 tors
    away.  You guys without emulators are in for a treat.

    -Andy

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Fast Forward Engineering, Vista, California