Microchip Technology Inc. had a tough decision to make in moving from the MPLAB Integrated Development Environment (IDE) version 8 to MPLAB IDE X: add a few features here and there, or move to a new ...

The new software is called MPLAB Xpress. It’s an in-browser IDE that stores your code online and compiles server-side. It spits out a .hex file that is downloaded by your browser and flashed to the ...

Microchip always forges its own path. It's line of PIC micros is unique and it choose the MIPS architecure when it came up with a new 32-bit microcontroller line. Their new MPLAB X (Fig. 1) integrated ...