Time is money, and engineers who are outfitted with powerful and easy-to-use advanced debugging and development solutions are better able to meet their company’s ever-decreasing product design schedules and budgets. Microchip's 8-bit Emulation Extension Paks offer a variety of advanced emulation/debugging capabilities to assist customers with their tough code-debugging jobs. Its key features include real-time instruction trace, background debug and up to 32 hardware address/data breakpoints. Microchip continues its history of providing highly integrated 8-bit PIC MCUs with easy to use development tools that provide powerful emulation and debugging capabilities at a cost effective price.