User manual

MPLAB

PM3 User’s Guide

7.4.1 Select Programmer

To select the MPLAB PM3 programmer, select Select Programmer>MPLAB PM3.

Once the programmer is selected, the Output window opens.

7.4.2 Enable Programmer

To enable the MPLAB PM3 programmer, select Programmer>Enable Programmer.

If updates are available for the programmer firmware, MPLAB IDE may display a

prompt to update. If auto download has been set in the Configuration dialog,

MPLAB IDE will automatically update the necessary files.

Once the MPLAB PM3 programmer is selected, the full menu displays. Enable the

programmer to make additional menu items available. Some of the MPLAB PM3 menu

items are similar to buttons on the MPLAB PM3 Toolbar.

7.4.2.1 OUTPUT WINDOW

When you select Programmer>Select Programmer>MPLAB PM3

from the MPLAB

PM3 menu or select View>Output

from the MPLAB IDE menu, the Output window

opens. This window contains tabbed information about program output. Refer to the

MPLAB IDE documentation for more information.

The menu items in the Output window available from the right mouse button menu are:

• Select All – Selects all text and graphics in the Edit window.

• Copy – Copies the selected text in the current window onto the clipboard. After

this operation, paste the copied text into another MPLAB Editor window, into

another location in the same MPLAB Editor window, or into another Windows

application.

• Clear Page – Clears the contents of the Output window.

7.4.2.2 PROGRAM MEMORY WINDOW

When you select View>Program Memory

from the MPLAB IDE menu, the Program

Memory window (Figure 7-2) opens in machine code view.

FIGURE 7-2: PROGRAM MEMORY WINDOW