Datasheet

PICkit™ 3 DEBUG EXPRESS

Preface

INTRODUCTION

This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before using the

PICkit™ 3 Debug Express. Items discussed in this chapter include:

• Document Layout

• Conventions Used in this Guide

• Warranty Registration

• Recommended Reading

• The Microchip Web Site

• Development Systems Customer Change Notification Service

• Customer Support

• Document Revision History

DOCUMENT LAYOUT

This document describes how to use the PICkit™ 3 Debug Express as a development

tool to emulate and debug firmware on a target board. The manual layout is as follows:

• Chapter 1. “Introduction” – establishes the 12 PICkit 3 Debug Express Lessons

and describes the prerequisites before beginning the lessons.

• Chapter 2. “PIC18FXXXX Microcontroller Architectural Overview” – is an

overview of the PIC18FXXXX microcontroller architecture.

• Chapter 3. “PICkit™ 3 Debug Express Lessons”– describes the 12 PICkit 3

Debug Express Lessons in detail.

• Appendix A. “Schematics” – illustrates the schematic for the PICkit 3 Debug

Express 44-pin Demo Board with PIC18F45K20.

NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS

All documentation becomes dated, and this manual is no exception. Microchip tools and

documentation are constantly evolving to meet customer needs, so some actual dialogs

and/or tool descriptions may differ from those in this document. Please refer to our web site

(www.microchip.com) to obtain the latest documentation available.

Documents are identified with a “DS” number. This number is located on the bottom of each

page, in front of the page number. The numbering convention for the DS number is

“DSXXXXXA”, where “XXXXX” is the document number and “A” is the revision level of the

document.

For the most up-to-date information on development tools, see the MPLAB

IDE on-line help.

Select the Help menu, and then Topics to open a list of available on-line help files.