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FIGURE 3.9
Adding a new
programmer. Amphibionics

computer until it locates the required executable. If your device
uses MPLAB, you will be presented with two further screens, the
select options and development mode screens. If your programmer
is not in the list, you will need to create a custom programmer
entry. Your programmer is now ready for use. When you press the
Compile and Program button on the main toolbar, your PICBasic
program is compiled and the programmer software is started. The
hex filename and target device is automatically set in the pro-
gramming software (if this feature is supported), ready for you to
program the microcontroller, as shown in Figure 3.10.

MicroCode Studio in Circuit Debugger
The MicroCode Studio ICD enables you to execute a PICBasic
Program on a host PIC microcontroller and view variable values,
Special Function Registers (SFR), memory, and EEPROM as the
program is running. Each line of source code is animated in the

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