Microchip has released the MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment (IDE) version 5.05, which beta supports the majority of AVR microcontrollers (MCUs). This release will allow designers who ...

Microchip Technology Inc. had a tough decision to make in moving from the MPLAB Integrated Development Environment (IDE) version 8 to MPLAB IDE X: add a few features here and there, or move to a new ...

A little home project involving microcontroller programming and 3D printing – so MPLAB-X and DesignSpark Mechanical. Going to shows and conferences for my day job – where USB sticks full of data are ...

UPDATE: These notes below have also worked with Lubuntu on an old Samsung NC10 netbook. Lubuntu would not let me make files in the ‘Home’ directory, so I put the Microchip directory in ‘Samsung’, ...

Recently Microchip released MPLAB Xpress, a cloud-based version of its IDE for developers to use free of charge. The idea is to make it simple for students, hobbyists, and entrepreneurs on a ...

Microchip Technology has introduced the MPLAB PICkit Basic, an affordable and versatile in-circuit debugger designed to simplify programming and debugging for engineers, hobbyists, and students. The ...