> Van: Robert Rolf <Robert.Rolf@UALBERTA.CA>
> Aan: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Onderwerp: MPSIM yet another gotcha
> Datum: vrijdag 4 februari 2000 8:43
>
> ARRRGHH!@!! Burned again!
>
> It would seem that being a newbee has it's high price in PICland.
> Being new to the PIC I relied on MPSIM to accurately reflect the PIC's
behavior as I
> learned the subtleties of the device. I -trusted- the tools Microchip
supplied would work
> as advertised. Well, they DON'T.

You're right.  Use MPLAB for assembling, programming & single-step of
*code* (not hardware !) only.  I definitely hate it when I have to remember
the quirks of both the controller *and* the Emulator/simulator used to test
the device.

By the way: ever tried to create data for a EEProm ?  My version of MPLAB
allways tries to show a *assembly*-listing of the EEProm-data (program
memory window) ...

Next to that, at loading it allways defaults to that window <sigh>, and
complains about differences between the choosen processors (EEPROM8 &
24C16B), although the setup is copied from the book ...

But, because it's "free" software, we are not expected to complain.

Ah well,  we just have to live with it ---  live *without* it I mean :-)

Regards,
  Rudy Wieser