Microchip Announces MPLABX
by George on Sep.21, 2010, under Misc
As a Macbook owner and somebody who does PIC development, I have long had to dual boot Windows to do PIC programming work. Some options for programming PICs in Mac OS X exist, but none of them are officially supported by Microchip.
Until now… apparently the folks at Microchip have heard my prayers and are readying MPLAB X for release. From the project wiki page:
MPLAB® X IDE is a software program that runs on a PC (Windows®, Mac OS®, Linux®) to develop applications for Microchip microcontrollers and digital signal controllers. It is called an Integrated Development Environment, or IDE, because it provides a single integrated “environment” to develop code for embedded microcontrollers.
Awesome! The official release of MPLAB X is slated for release January 2011, but you can download the beta version for the time being. We’ll be following the development and release of the tool in the coming months, so stay tuned!
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November 3rd, 2010 on 1:50 PM
[...] been limited to the Windows platform. That will soon change with the anticipated January release of MPLABX (heard here first), but in the meantime, Mac and Linux development options are somewhat limited. [...]
December 5th, 2010 on 4:21 PM
[...] about MPLABX, Microchip’s upcoming cross-platform IDE for working with PIC microcontrollers, some time ago. The software is still in beta, with an official release expected some time in January. At the time [...]
May 7th, 2011 on 2:24 PM
[...] been tracking the progress of Microchip’s new MPLABX IDE since it was first announced last fall. It’s gone from the original version to beta 4 to beta 5. Looks like MPLABX Beta 6 is now [...]