1 Introduction

The MPLAB® PICkit™ Basic In-Circuit Debugger (PG164110) is an ultra-low priced debugging solution for projects not requiring high-voltage programming or advanced debug features. Therefore, it supports many of Microchip’s newer MCU offerings but not some legacy products. With a nominal feature set, the debugger is geared toward developers who don’t require advanced features. It is not intended for production programming.

Important: For low pin count AVR devices with UPDI, MPLAB PICkit Basic cannot generate the high voltage pulse to reactivate the UPDI interface if the UPDI pin is configured as GPIO or RESET by configuring the RSTPINCFG configuration bits. A different tool will need to be used to do this, such as the MPLAB PICkit 5.