PIC ICD2 Plus Emulator and Programmer for PIC and dsPIC now $99

9. March 2010 by admin.

From: http://www.kanda.com/products/QuantumBase/QB-ICD2.html

PIC-ICD2 Plus debugger and programmer is directly compatible with Microchip’s original MPBA-ICD2 and with it you can do everything you can do with the original MPLAB-ICD2, including PIC Programming. PIC-ICD2 is a low cost, real-time debugger and programmer for all PIC16F, PIC18F and dsPIC DSCs.
Programs can be downloaded and executed in real time and examined in detail with the debug functions of MPLAB. Watches can be set on variables and breakpoints can be set from symbolic labels in C or assembly source code, to allow single steppping through C source lines or into assembly code. 

PIC-ICD2 can also be used as a development programmer for supported PIC MCUs. 

The secret behind In Circuit Debugging is two dedicated hardware lines (microcontroller pins used only during debugging mode) that control In Circuit Serial Programming (ICSP) of the device and, afterwards, debugging through proprietary, on-chip firmware. 

The ICD 2 debug features are built into the microcontroller and activated by programming the debug code into the target processor. There is some shared overhead expense that includes one stack level, some general purpose file registers and a small area of program memory.

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