4.1 Software Requirements

Microchip’s MPLAB X and Atmel Studio are Integrated Development Environments used to develop applications for microcontrollers. The application presented in this document has been developed in MPLAB X. The MPLAB X IDE v5.30 and the XC8 compiler v2.10 or later are required for the correct functionality of this project.

MPLAB X IDE gives a seamless and easy-to-use environment to write, build, and debug user applications written in C/C++ or assembly code. MPLAB X supports all Microchip microcontrollers and development tools.

There is a plug-in for MPLAB X called MPLAB Code Configurator, which provides code generation features to facilitate the use of peripherals. These tools can also be used online on MPLAB Xpress.