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16-bit Embedded Control Solutions

World Class Development Tools

MPLAB X IDE

Universal and Integrated Tool Set

MPLAB X IDE is a single, universal graphical user interface

for Microchip and third party software and hardware

development tools. It is the industry’s only IDE to support

an entire portfolio of 800+ 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit PIC

MCUs, dsPIC DSCs and memory devices.

MPLAB X supports Microchip’s compilers, emulators,

debuggers and starter kits, as well as many third-party

tools. Moving between all of your favorite Microchip tools

and upgrading from software simulators to hardware

debugging and programming tools is simple with this IDE’s

seamless user interface.

Powerful Yet User-Friendly Interface

With complete project management, visual call graphs, a

configurable watch window and a feature-rich editor that

includes code-completion, context menus and a task navigator,

MPLAB X is flexible and friendly enough for new users.

MPLAB X is also fully equipped for the needs of

experienced users with the ability to support multiple

tools on multiple projects with multiple configurations and

simultaneous debugging.

Open-Source Platform

Based on the NetBeans™ Platform, MPLAB X supports a

host of free software components and plug-ins from the

NetBeans community for high-performance application

development customized to your needs. In addition to

local file history, MPLAB X is also compatible with revision

control plug-ins and Bugzilla.

Cross-Platform

Using MPLAB X, users can run their favorite toolset and

develop their next embedded application on Windows®,

Linux or Mac OS X.

MPLAB XC16 C Compiler for PIC24 MCUs and

dsPIC DSCs

The MPLAB XC16 C Compiler includes a complete ANSI

C standard library, including string manipulation, dynamic

memory allocation, data conversion, timekeeping and

math libraries. The compiler has a powerful code optimizer.

Other 16-bit MCU compilers generate as much as 165%

larger code for the same application.

The assembler comes with the MPLAB XC C Compiler and

may be used with the compiler or as an assembler. It is a

full-featured macro assembler. User defined macros,

conditional assembly and a variety of assembler directives

make the assembler a power code generation tool.

Available for MPLAB X IDE

MPLAB X SIM Software Simulator

The MPLAB X SIM Software Simulator is a full-featured,

cycle accurate software simulator. In addition to simulating

the CPU and the instruction set, it also supports key

peripherals.

Download a full-featured, time-restricted

eval version of the MPLAB XC16 C

Compiler for PIC24 MCUs or dsPIC DSCs from

the Microchip web site for evaluation.

www.microchip.com/compilers