A unique and affordable PIC emulator

8th June 2006

Kanda.com

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PIC-MU-BETA is a Real-Time In-Circuit Emulator for the most popular 6-pin to 18-pin Microchip PIC® microcontrollers. It offers many professional level features for a very low price. It is designed to ease your development of PIC applications. It is also extremely useful as an educational tool.

Advantages for any PIC MCU user are:
Small system design - when designing systems based on small PIC MCUs like power supplies, sensors, alarms, simple communication units, robots, controllers, toys, etc., the PIC-MU-BETA will cut the time required for firmware development to only a fraction. You can focus on new features of your product rather than spend time searching for silly bugs like forgotten data bank select bit.…..
Complex systems with distributed intelligence - when using more than one microcontroler, why not to use more emulators? The price of PIC-MU-BETA allows for this solution. So the debugging of tasks like inter-processor communication will no longer be a nightmare.
Educational - excellent tool for efficient teaching of embedded microcontroller technology. Enables your students to quickly learn the processes inside the microcontrollers Why waste time by describing the behaviour of a "black box" when you can demonstrate everything absolutely clearly?

Advanced technical features include its extreme flexibility, which is due in part to the PIC-MU-BETA being based on state-of-the-art programmable gate arrays (FPGA). This solution is far more flexible and offers more functionality than the "traditional" specially manufactured bond-out chips solution. The analogue peripherals are designed to be compatible with the ones found on the original PIC MCUs. And, as all device resources are available for the user's application, PIC-MU-BETA offers excellent device resource accessibility even when running at full application speed. So you do not have to stop the real-time run to watch and modify the device registers, making it really non-intrusive.
Another excellent feature is that low voltage applications are not a problem with PIC-MU-BETA. Target application supply voltage can be as low as 2 V and your emulator will still work fine. There are no obvious 5 V only limitations.
The default device socket on the PIC-MU-BETA is DIP, but SMA headers are also available as an added option. Software operates under 95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP
For more information on the PIC-MU-BETA got to http://www.kanda.com/go/PIC-MU-BETA