User manual

MPLAB STARTER KIT FOR PIC24F
USERS GUIDE
© 2008 Microchip Technology Inc. DS51725A-page 19
Chapter 4. Developing an Application
The MPLAB Starter Kit for PIC24F may be used with MPLAB
®
IDE, the free intergrated
development environment available on Microchip’s web site. MPLAB IDE allows the
starter kit to be used as an in-circuit debugger as well as a programmer for the featured
device.
In-circuit debugging allows you to run, examine and modify your program for the device
embedded in the starter kit hardware. This greatly assists you in debugging your
firmware and hardware together.
Special starter kit software interacts with the MPLAB IDE application to run, stop and
single-step through programs. Breakpoints can be set and the processor can be reset.
Once the processor is stopped, the register’s contents can be examined and modified.
For more information on how to use MPLAB IDE, reference the following
documentation:
MPLAB
®
IDE User’s Guide (DS51519)
MPLAB
®
IDE Quick Start Guide (DS51281)
MPLAB
®
IDE On-line Help
This chapter includes the following:
Setting Up an Example Application for Debug
Running the Example Application
Debugging the Example Application
Programming the Debugged Application
Creating Other Applications
Determining Device Support and Reserved Resources
Debug Version Information
Troubleshooting