16-bit PIC24 MCUs and dsPIC® DSCs

Development Tools

A complete suite of tools is available to help get your design to market. Choose from low cost starter kits, fully featured development boards, free MPLAB® IDE and MPLAB® XC Compilers as well as a range of debuggers.

Starter Kits

MPLAB® Starter Kits

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Starter kits contain a device with demonstration hardware and software, an integrated debugger and a copy of MPLAB® IDE, allowing a designer to quickly evaluate a silicon and software solution.

 
Development and Evaluation Boards

Development & Evaluation Boards

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The Explorer 16 platform is the primary development board for 16-bit products. Explorer 16 is supplemented by numerous application specific development boards.

 

Development Environment & Compilers

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The MPLAB® development environment is a single tool chain supporting all PIC® microcontrollers and dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers.

 
  • MPLAB® IDE
    • Single Integrated Development Environment supports all PIC® MCUs and dsPIC® DSCs
  • MPLAB® XC Compilers
    • Full featured MPLAB® XC Compilers with free downloads available
  • 3rd Party RTOS
    • RTOS supporting Microchip PIC® MCUs and dsPIC® DSCs
  • Software Tools
    • Supplemental software tools for 16-bit PIC® MCUs and dsPIC® DSCs
Emulators and Debuggers

Emulators & Debuggers

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The debuggers and programmers work across all PIC MCU platforms, are USB powered and are fully integrated with MPLAB® IDE with features ranging from basic debugging to advanced emulation capability.