User manual

MPLAB

ICD 3 In-Circuit Debugger User’s Guide

5.2 SETTING UP THE ENVIRONMENT AND SELECTING THE DEVICE

Before beginning this tutorial, follow the steps in Chapter 3. “Installation” to set up the

MPLAB IDE software and MPLAB ICD 3 system hardware. Double click on the MPLAB

IDE icon to launch the application. Once launched, the MPLAB IDE desktop should

appear.

FIGURE 5-1: MPLAB

IDE DESKTOP

Selecting the Device

To select the device for this tutorial:

1. Select Configure>Select Device

2. In the Device Selection dialog, choose “PIC24FJ128GA010” from the Device list

box. The light icon next to “MPLAB ICD 3” in the “Microchip Tool

Programmer/Debugger Tool Support” sections should be green.

3. Click OK.

5.3 CREATING THE APPLICATION CODE

For this tutorial, two C programs (counter.c and timer.c) will be used. The code

for each is shown below.

1. Using Windows

Explorer, create a project folder and directory, for example,

C:\Projects\ICD3Tut.

2. Open an editor window by selecting File>New

. Enter the code for the first

program (see text for counter.c) in this window and save to the

project\directory folder.

3. Open another editor window by selecting File>New

. Enter the code for the

second program (see text for timer.c) in this window and save to the

project\directory folder.