37 Development Support
The PIC® microcontrollers (MCU) and dsPIC® digital signal controllers (DSC) are supported with a full range of software and hardware development tools:
- Integrated Development Environment
- MPLAB® X IDE Software
- Compilers/Assemblers/Linkers
- MPLAB XC Compiler
- MPASM™ Assembler
- MPLINK™ Object Linker/ MPLIB™ Object Librarian
- MPLAB Assembler/Linker/Librarian for Various Device Families
- Simulators
- MPLAB X SIM Software Simulator
- Emulators
- MPLAB REAL ICE™ In-Circuit Emulator
- In-Circuit Debuggers/Programmers
- MPLAB ICD 3
- PICkit™ 3 In-Circuit Debugger
- Device Programmers
- MPLAB PM3 Device Programmer
- Low-Cost Demonstration/Development Boards, Evaluation Kits and Starter Kits
- Third-party development tools