Does MPLAB X work with Swordfish for Debugging?

vkmaynard · Post by **vkmaynard** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 2:57 am

Does MPLAB X work with Swordfish for Debugging?

How?

David Barker · Post by **David Barker** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:47 am

> Does MPLAB X work with Swordfish for Debugging?

Yes

> How?

http://www.sfcompiler.co.uk/wiki/pmwiki ... User.MPLAB
http://www.sfcompiler.co.uk/wiki/pmwiki ... r.MPLABICD

octal · Post by **octal** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 9:29 am

No I dont think it's compatible at all.
MPLabX is still in beta state, and even Microchip Simulator does not work yet on it for most chips. PICKit2 is not even supported, and ICD2 is supported only for some chips.
ICD3 is supported for most chips but is not stable.

PS. MPLabX is not MPLab, it's the new version of MPLab fully rewritten in Java to be multiplatform (based on Netbeans platform). more details here http://devupdates.microchip.com/mplab/

Regards

David Barker · Post by **David Barker** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:47 am

> PS. MPLabX is not MPLab

Thanks for clearing that up...

Jerry Messina · Post by **Jerry Messina** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 1:47 pm

The original question probably should have been:

"IF MPLABX worked, could you use it with Swordfish for Debugging?"

That said, I think you can still import a COF file into MPLABX and use it... it'll just work as poorly as MPLABX does currently (no simulator, no pickit2, sketchy ICD2/ICD3 operation, etc)

vkmaynard · Post by **vkmaynard** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 3:21 pm

I wish I could get 8.56 working. No chance according to Microchip since they have no idea on how to support their software.

Dredd · Post by **Dredd** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 5:08 pm

vkmaynard wrote:I wish I could get 8.56 working. No chance according to Microchip since they have no idea on how to support their software.

Do you mean you can't run MPLAB 8.56 or can't run SF in this version of MPLAB?

I do run SF in 8.56 without any problems... But you must mean on another OS then windows. The only way i was able to run MPLAB on my Mac was using virtualization software. (Parallels and Fusion)