5 Emulator Features
In addition to basic debug features, the emulator has advanced debug features or the implementations of the debug features. Some debug features are dependent on other debug features.
To see if a specific debug feature is available for your device:
- In MPLAB X IDE, on the Help menu select “Release Notes.”
- In addition to Release Notes/Readmes, find Debug Features Support.
- Click on the link for “Hardware Tool Debug Features by Device.”
The following table specifies which emulator features are supported on each connection type.
| Feature | Microcontroller Family* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PIC10/12/16 (8-bit) | PIC24, dsPIC (16-bit) | PIC32 (32-bit) | AVR (8-bit) | SAM (32-bit) | |
| Virtual COM Port | X | X | X | X | X |
| DGI | X | X | X | X | X |
| Basic Debug | X | X | X | X | X |
| Data Capture, Runtime Watches | X | X | X | ||
| PIC Instrumented Trace | X | X | |||
| PIC32M Instruction Trace | X | ||||
| SAM ITM/SWO Trace | X | ||||
| PC Sampling | X | ||||
| PC Profiling | X | ||||
| Debugger Polling | X | X | |||
| Power Monitoring | X | X | X | X | |
| * Not all devices in a family have support. See features section for details. | |||||