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Step-by-Step Procedures to Setup, Build, and Run a Demo Project

FIGURE 5-13: HYPER TERMINAL CONNECTION SCREEN

Click OK and, on the next screen, select the following communication settings:

• Bits Per Second: 57600

•Data Bits: 8

• Parity: None

• Stop Bits: 1

• Flow Control: None

Click OK and the Hyper Terminal session should be connected to the serial port on the

development board.

Now return to the MPLAB IDE and double click on the line:

return nc;

in the MPLAB IDE Editor window, the main.c program, to set a breakpoint on that line,

just after the call to strlen().

Click Debugger->Run from the main menu, or Run from the Debug toolbar. The

program should start running and it will reach the set breakpoint. The MPLAB IDE

window will look very similar to this one: