On 11/3/07, peter green <plugwash@p10link.net> wrote:
> Funny NYPD wrote:
> > For debugging, I would recommend ICE2000 or
> > other professional tools for beginners who doesn't
> > have much experience on PICs. The pain on ICE2000
> > is you need spend extra money to buy modules
> > everytime for new chipsets.
> >
> >
> Maybe if you have a lot of money and need to sort out a
> particularlly difficult problem, for most begginers though
> I don't think it is suitable for three reasons.
>
> 1: the cost of the ice2000 itself
> 2: the cost of the heads
> 3: the fact that you have to work out how to integrate
> the head into the setup being debugged, this is much
>  harder than hooking a couple of wires
> to pgc and pgd
>

Actually I started with PIC at work and had the luxury
to buy all the best tools at the time (early year
2000): ICE2000, Promate II and HiTech PICC 7.85.
It was a smooth start and I finished the learning
and coding process pretty fast.

The problem is that ICE2000 does not support the
new 3.3V only PICs like PIC18J/PIC24/dsPIC33.

Real-ICE is said to be the tools of choice for
PIC24/dsPIC33. I think ICD2 is ok for its price. However
for professional work and larger program (like
bigger 18F, PIC24 and dsPIC33), it is not so good.


Xiaofan
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