Specifications

mikroElektronika | Free Online Book | PIC Microcontrollers | Appendix C: Development Systems
That's it! The microcontroller is programmed and everything is ready for operation. If you are not
satisfied, make some changes in the program and repeat the procedure. Until when? Until you
feel satisfied...
Development systems
A device, which in testing program phase, can simulate any environment is called a development
system. Apart from the programmer, the power supply unit and the microcontrollerâ™s socket,
the development system contains elements for input pin activation and output pin monitoring.
The simplest version has every pin connected to one push-button and one LED as well. A high
quality version has LED displays, LCD displays, temperature sensors and all other elements which
the target device can be supplied with. These peripherals could be connected to the MCU via
miniature jumpers. In this way, the whole program may be tested in practice, during its
development stage, because the microcontroller does not know, or care, whether its input is
activated by a push-button or a sensor built in a real machine.
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