Olin, thanks for the info. The rest of my response is below.

> If this is for hobby use, I hear the in circuit debugger (ICD) is a
> reasonable value.  It does require some pins and some program memory
> locations.  If this for a commercial project where you can't
> afford to fart
> around, you need the ICE-2000.

This is for commercial project. The budget is limited but we can fit in an
ICE2000.

It is a true in circuit emulator that does
> not use up any pins, program memory, etc.  You plug it into the circuit as
> if it were the chip, and the other end connects to a parallel port.  The
> parallel port part is a bit of a pain, but fortunately Microchip is coming
> out with a new ICE that will be USB (finally!).  The new ICE will be
> required for the dsPICs.  I don't think they are out yet, and I'm not sure
> they are backward compatible with the older PICs.  All these systems are
> properly integrated into MPLAB.  You can step thru code just like
> you would
> with the simulator, except that the code is actually being executed on the
> target system.

We need the emulator now so probably we will have to go with the parallel
port version.

You mention MPLAB and 'step through code', what about C code, is there a C
compiler / debugger combination that provides a C source level debugging for
12F675 and 16F876 using ICE 2000 ?

Tal

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