User`s guide

MPLAB

IDE User’s Guide

3.19 CHOOSING A PROGRAMMER

Once you have your code debugged and running smoothly, it is time to program a

device and try it in your application.

Select a programmer from Programmer>Select Programmer

. The programmer you use

will depend on the device that you wish to program.

• PICSTART Plus and PICkit 1 or 2 development programmers – Used to program

most PICmicro MCU devices in a development (nonproduction) environment. See

the Readme files in the MPLAB IDE directory for a list of supported devices.

• MPLAB ICD 2 in-circuit debugger – Used to program certain Flash devices. See

the Readme file in the MPLAB IDE directory for a list of supported devices.

• MPLAB PM3 device programmer – Used to program most PICmicro MCU and

dsPIC DSC devices. See the Readme file in the MPLAB IDE directory for a list of

supported devices.

• PRO MATE II device programmer – Used to program most PICmicro MCU

devices. (This programmer is being obsoleted in favor of MPLAB PM3.) See the

Readme file in the MPLAB IDE directory for a list of supported devices.

Once you have chosen a programmer, you will see changes in the following on the IDE:

• Programmer menu – Several standard options will be available. Other

tool-specific options may also appear. Most of these options also will be available

from the right mouse button menu in either the source code (file) window or

Program Memory window.

• Programmer toolbar – Several standard options will be available. Other

tool-specific options may also appear.

• Status bar – The programmer you have selected should now be shown.

3.20 PROGRAMMING YOUR PART

In general, to program your part:

• Check the values for the Configuration bits in your code or in Configure>

Configuration Bits.

• Check the programming settings in the Programmer>Settings

dialog.

•Select Programmer>Program

Once you have programmed your part, you are ready to try it in your application. If the

part does not function as you had expected, you will need to debug your code and

reprogram your part (or program a new part) before placing it in your application again.

3.21 USING MICROCHIP HELP

Microchip Technology provides on-line HTML help for MPLAB IDE and each of its

development tools. Select Help>Topics

to bring up a list of available help files in the

Help Topics dialog. You may also bring up help topics for each dialog by clicking on its

Help button or pressing F1 if there is no help button. F1 also brings up help topics for

windows.

For more on Help, see Section 6.6 “Microchip Help”.