Release Notes for Third Party Tools for MPLAB® X IDE

MPLAB X IDE v2.20

September 2, 2014

Table of Contents

1       Third Party Tools Support

2       Web Resources

3       What’s New

4       Repairs and Enhancements Made

5       Known Problems

1      Third Party Tools Support

MPLAB X IDE supports development tools from many different vendors. If you encounter problems using the tools with MPLAB X IDE, see the vendor website for more tool information. Also ensure you have the latest version of the tools and associated MPLAB X IDE plug-ins.

The plug-ins can be downloaded from the plug-in portal using the MPLAB X IDE plug-in manager. See the MPLAB X IDE documentation for how to install a plug-in.

Many third party tools and venders are listed on the Microchip third-party website (see next section). Others include:

·         FreeRTOS™ (http://www.freertos.org)
Note: The 8-bit FreeRTOS is not supported by Microchip’s RTOS viewers.

·         MPLAB X IDE supports the following Version Control programs under the Team menu:

·         CVS (http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/ide/cvs.html)

·         Subversion® (http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/ide/subversion.html)

·         Mercurial (http://wiki.netbeans.org/MercurialVersionControl)

Through the use of external plug-ins, support for the following VC programs may be added:

·         Microsoft® Visual SourceSafe® (http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqVSSProfile)

·         MATLAB/Simulink (http://www.mathworks.com/)

·         Gimpel PC-LINT/MISRA (http://www.gimpel.com/html/pcl.htm)

·         SEGGER J-Link (http://www.segger.com/jlink-debug-probes.html)

·         Proteus VSM MPLAB Viewer (http://www.labcenter.com/support/vdmmplab.cfm)

·         LDRA Rules for MPLAB X (http://www.ldra.com/en/ldrarules)

2      Web Resources

Information on Third Party Development Tools and Design Resources may be found at:

http://www.microchip.com/devtoolthirdparty/

A video that describes how to install and use the CCS compiler plug-in is available here:

http://youtu.be/uziNEmDdF3g

3      What’s New

·         SEGGER J-Link debug probe support. See on-line help for support details.

4      Repairs and Enhancements Made

XPI-46: [SEGGER J-Link] Advance breakpoints (Anded, Latched, sequential) not grayed out for the plugin in MPLAB X IDE, but should be.

5      Known Problems

XPI-47: [SEGGER J-Link] Error messages reported using MPLAB X IDE and Segger plugin are cryptic.

XPI-49: [SEGGER J-Link] MPLAB X IDE dash board does not reflect the number of set breakpoints correctly using SEGGER J-Link probe. Even when a breakpoint is used, all breakpoints are shown as available.