Well, it depends,

I use simulator for diffiucult parts of a program only. Microchip's ICD
schema is free and I don't consider to break any law building this for my
hobby using.
When you use PIC18xxx you shoud look at www.picmicro.com. The downloader and
ICD ability fit for hobbiest purposes perfect.


Igor



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Subject: [PIC]: Debugging code in the chip


I am curious about how people debug their code once they have burned it
into the chip and it does not work correctly.  Would appreciate any
feedback I can get.

I'm not talking about the commercial guys, now, with their zillion-dollar
systems, but the poor hobbyists (like me) who have a breadboard, a chip, a
few components, and a simulator.

Simulators are wonderful, but at some point you have gone through the code,
and it all looks correct; you have run it through the simulator and it
works perfectly, you burn it into the chip, and BAM! it does not work. :-(

So how do people debug it at that point?  (I have some ideas, but I am sure
there are a whole raft of things I have not thought of).

John

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