You really only need this if you want to step through the code in the targe=
t
circuit itself.  That is useful, but not essential.  You can still use the
debugger in the MPLAB simulator and obtain similar results.  The simulator
allows you to simulate button presses, time loops, specify breakpoints.  Th=
e
one thing you can't do in the simulator is look at real world events.  For
example, if you had an incoming serial data stream and you wanted to see it
actually being parsed or otherwise processed by your PIC, you might find it
more useful to have in-circuit debugging.

Do understand though, that you will still have in-circuit programming even
if you don't buy the header, so you can write code and test it in your real
world circuit even without this device.  What you can't do is step through
the code in the real world device.

Whether you really need it depends on what kind of application you are
developing.

John Hansen
Coastal ChipWorks

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 3:58 PM, <jana1972@centrum.cz> wrote:

>  Thanks ALL for the reply.
>
>  So, if I understood well, I would need to buy
>  PIC16F648A-ICD
>  to be able to debug PIC16F628A.
>
>  Does anyone use that PIC16F648A-ICD?
>  Is it worth buying it? Does it make much easier work ing with PIC16F628A=
..?
>  Or do you use another method to check your code before programming?
>
>  Thanks
>  L.
>
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > jana1972@centrum.cz wrote 2011-10-24 20:29:
> > > > I tried to use MPLAB IDE v 8.80 with PICkit3 and with PIC16F628A.
> > > > When I try to use Debugger I receive the error:
> > > >
> > > > Target Device ID (00001060) does not match expected DeviceID
> (00001120).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > But when I use Programmer, it works OK.
> > > > PICkit3 says:
> > > > Target Detected
> > > > Device ID Revision =3D 00000008
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone help/explain?
> > >
> > > Yes, Microchip of course.
> > >
> > > See :
> > > http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/51292S.pdf
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > L.
> > > >
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