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In-Circuit Emulators and Debuggers

Feature PICkit™ 3 MPLAB® ICD 3

MPLAB REAL ICE™

In-Circuit Emulator

USB Speed Full Only High and Full High and Full

USB Driver HID Microchip Microchip

USB Powered Yes Yes Yes

Programmable V

pp Yes Yes Yes

Power to Target Yes Yes No

Programmable Vdd Yes Yes Yes

Vdd Drain from Target 20mA <1mA <1mA

Over Voltage/Current Protection Yes, SW Yes, HW Yes, HW

Emulation Support Full Speed Full Speed Full Speed

Breakpoints Simple Complex Complex

Software Breakpoints Yes Yes Yes

Program Memory Image Size 512Kbytes No No

Serialized USB Yes Yes Yes

Trace, Native No No Yes

Trace, Other (SPI, PORT, Inst) No No Yes

Data Capture No No Yes

Logic/Probe Triggers No No Yes

High Speed Performance PAK (LVDS) No No Yes

Production Programmer No Yes Yes

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