On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:43 PM, John Chung wrote: > > It helps since we have access to the src code. MPLAB is propriety software. I do not see Microchip will open source MPLAB any time soon. They might release some software to support Linux and Mac OS X but those will not be open source either. > Don't see the need to ICD3 yet.... Not been very active developing MCU > programs for a while. > I do not use PIC at work either in this job. So I have not used ICD 3 and Real ICE yet. But I see some designs using small PICs as the auxiliary MCU here. So I saw the first ICD 2 today in the company as the other colleague is doing a redesign of the existing device which uses 8-pin PIC as a housekeeping MCU along with the main MPU which is an ARM 9. I did introduce Microchip EEPROMs in the company and got a SeeVal 32 two years back. http://mcuee.blogspot.com/2007/05/first-try-of-blog.html At that time, PICkit 2 did not support serial EEPROM. Later PICkit 2 supports serial EEPROMs. -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist