We’ve covered Microchip’s MPLABX IDE over the course of the year, and were very excited to see the news that MPLABX is finally out of beta! MPLABX v1.0 has been released, and is available for download here, along with release notes and the latest copies of the various Microchip compilers.

Among other things, MPLABX offers the following features:

• Java-based, cross platform GUI: Program PICs on Mac, Windows, or Linux
• Refreshed, improved graphical user interface
• (Most of) the same great functionality from MPLAB 8

We are very excited about this project. MPLABX represents the first official cross-platform compiler/IDE (that we’re aware of), and we hope other chip companies follow in their path.

(via Dangerous Prototypes)

Beta 7 of Microchip’s cross-platform MPLABX IDE is now available. The IDE can be downloaded over at the MPLABX download page. Additionally, tutorials and help information for MPLABX are available here.

In addition to MPLABX, the Microchip C compilers on the downloads page have all been updated. Updated compilers are: C30 v3.30b, C32 v2.0, C18 v3.40, PICC 9.82, PICC18 v9.66. Head on over and check it out!

We’ve 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 available. Via the Microchip forums, beta 6 includes the following new features:

New Features:

Assembly color syntax highlighting
Smart tool selection
Returned Program Button
Programmer to go
PIC18FJ Starter kit.
FRC in debug mode
Graphical Memory usage in environment display
Tool status in environment display
Manual firmware downloads
dsPIC33EP device support
Instrumented trace for PIC32
Limited stimulus capability
Multiple configuration cleaned up
Third party compiler support:

PICBASIC PRO
CCSC (Only in Windows and requires latest beta release from vendor)
SDCC (Linux/Windows, not tested in Mac). No source level debugging. Plugin courtesy of Rodrigo Almeida.

Looks great! Head over to the download page now and get yourself a copy.

Finally!

The folks over at Microchip finally released their latest beta, Beta 5, of their upcoming cross-platform IDE, MPLABX. You can see the announcement here and download the beta here.

via DangerousPrototypes

Finally!

We blogged 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 of the original post, while it was very exciting that MPLABX was up and coming and that it would provide cross-platform PIC IDE support, it was frustrating that certain pieces of software, namely the Microchip C compilers, were unavailable for some platforms (Mac OSX, in particular).

Today, however, I can excitedly report that all compilers for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux are now available, in addition to the MPLABX IDE. Furthermore, beta version 4.1 has been released if you are running the Windows platform. You can head over to the MPLABX download page and get started testing out the software before the January 2011 release (tutorials and other resources are available here). If you do, let us know what you think in the comments below.

UPDATE: There was some initial confusion about C18 that forced us to pull the post. The mplabc18.app that is downloaded from the above site needs to be unzipped in order to work, so try that if you’re experiencing problems.