No, it hasn't been superseded by the PICKit, those are a different product class that don't work with the range of chips that the ICD does. However, it has been superceded by the ICD 3. The ICD 3 works with a wider range of chips (particularly the newer ones) and is much faster with some of the newer chips. Whether or not it is worth upgrading depends on whether you are using any of the newer chips. If you're using chips like the 16F628A, for example, there's no real advantage. I would not switch to the PICKit though. The one advantage that the PICKit 3 has is that it is possible to store code in it and field program a PIC without loading MPLAB. The PICKit's are pretty cheap and they are the programmer of choice for my embedded programming classes, but I'd take the ICD3 over the PICKit 3 any day. John Hansen On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:57 AM, David C Brown wrote: > I have been using the Microchip ICD2 debugger/programmer (The one that > looks like a one pound tobacco tin) for some years now for working with m= id > range PICSs - mainly 16F8xx. I see that it appears to have been > superseded by PICKITs 2 & 3. > > What advantage would I gain by changing to the PICKIT? > -- > __________________________________________ > David C Brown > 43 Bings Road > Whaley Bridge > High Peak Phone: 01663 733236 > Derbyshire eMail: dcb.home@gmail.com > SK23 7ND web: www.bings-knowle.co.uk/dcb< > http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~dcb> > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .