I have been trying to get the MPLAB pass counter to work, finally called
Microchip.  John gave me the following information:

The pass counter only works in emulation mode, will not work in SIM mode
(software only). (Note in SIM mode it acts as an elapsed timer, i.e. time
(actually steps) from start).  Also changing from step to time cannot be
done.  Both of these functions work in MPSIM but were not carried forward
into MPLAB.  In future version time and step will be done away with.
Everything will be in cycles one or two cycles per instruction.  Step was
confusing on actual time usage due to goto's, etc.

Steve
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Steven Davidson
Dept. of Comm.  NTIA-ITS.N2
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