subject=Re:[PIC]:Which PIC development system?
source= http://www.piclist.com/postbot.asp?id=piclist\2001\07\04\104110a

> Use the MPLAB tool set from Microchip on any 32 bit Windows platform.  The
> Microchip software is completely free and includes the assembler,
librarian,
> linker, and IDE.  There is other freeware out there, but this is the stuff
> officially supported by Microchip, so you know it will always be updated
for
> new chips and the like.  It also has nicely integrated support for their
> programmers, in circuit debuggers, and ICEs.  It's what I use for
> professional PIC development, although I did have to write wrappers around
> some of their tools so I could run them from my build system.
> ********************************************************************
> Olin Lathrop, embedded systems consultant in Littleton Massachusetts



> Use the MPLAB tool set from Microchip on any 32 bit Windows platform.  The
> Microchip software is completely free and includes the assembler,
librarian,
> linker, and IDE.  There is other freeware out there, but this is the stuff
> officially supported by Microchip, so you know it will always be updated
for
> new chips and the like.  It also has nicely integrated support for their
> programmers, in circuit debuggers, and ICEs.  It's what I use for
> professional PIC development, although I did have to write wrappers around
> some of their tools so I could run them from my build system.
> ********************************************************************
> Olin Lathrop, embedded systems consultant in Littleton Massachusetts


But watch out for the slug-slow simulator --- maybe that'll get better with
the 32-bit version.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems
(contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
software)

Thanks Olin and Bob for the info. I'm glad you gave it to me in baby talk. I'm not sure if the simulator in MacPIC is fast or slow since I have no basis for comparison. For my purposes it ran adequately on old 68030 machines and like a rocket on any Power PC machine. I think I know what I'm gonna do now: play it safe and go with MPLAB.
                John Zeissig




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