8-bit PIC® Microcontrollers
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
VIEWStarter kits are affordable, turnkey solutions consisting of the hardware and software needed to explore a new device family, including an on-board or separate debugger, MPLAB® IDE and tutorials.
Development & Evaluation Boards
VIEWThese boards include flexibility and expansion capability for full featured designs, including the ability to add different processors and application daughter cards.
Development Environment
VIEWMPLAB® IDE integrated toolset and MPLAB® XC Compilers enable fast development of embedded applications and include a host of free software for optimized code.
Emulators & Debuggers
VIEWThe 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.




