On 6/22/2012 9:26 AM, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> ...
> If you want to work with PIC32, then forget about PICKit 3,
> buy the ICD 3, the speed difference is significant.
>


Pickit 2's are awesome (I have a few), but I'm being forced towards the=20
Pickit 3 for using PIC32's now.  The portability is great (as I travel a=20
lot and have a small case with my Pickit2, Saleae Logic analyzer, and=20
some custom super-small dev boards), so I'd prefer not to get an ICD,=20
etc.  I really don't do much in the way of debugging as spitting my own=20
test values out via serial or a basic output has always been a=20
clean/direct way to do this.

I'm looking at PIC32's for a project which would have SD/FAT, USB host,=20
analog, digital bit-banging, and a keypad/LCD interface.  I've been just=20
barely refusing to go to ARM since I already have and am familiar with=20
PIC dev tools and environment.  But if I have to get new programmers=20
etc, then I'm going to start re-considering ARM's, as the NXP & ST=20
devices are tempting.

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