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MPLAB ICD 4 User's Guide
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ANSI
American National Standards Institute is an organization responsible for formulating
and approving standards in the United States.
Application
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A set of software and hardware that may be controlled by a PIC microcontroller.
Archive/Archiver
An archive/library is a collection of relocatable object modules. It is created by
assembling multiple source files to object files, and then using the archiver/librarian to
combine the object files into one archive/library file. An archive/library can be linked
with object modules and other archives/libraries to create executable code.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character set encoding that
uses 7 binary digits to represent each character. It includes upper and lower case
letters, digits, symbols and control characters.
Assembly/Assembler
Assembly is a programming language that describes binary machine code in a
symbolic form. An assembler is a language tool that translates assembly language
source code into machine code.
Assigned Section
A GCC compiler section which has been assigned to a target memory block in the linker
command file.
Asynchronously
Multiple events that do not occur at the same time. This is generally used to refer to
interrupts that may occur at any time during processor execution.
Asynchronous Stimulus
Data generated to simulate external inputs to a simulator device.
Attribute
GCC Characteristics of variables or functions in a C program which are used to
describe machine-specific properties.
Attribute, Section
GCC Characteristics of sections, such as "executable", "readonly", or "data" that can
be specified as flags in the assembler directive.
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B
Binary
The base two numbering system that uses the digits 0-1. The rightmost digit counts
2
ones, the next counts multiples of 2, then 2 = 4, etc.
Bookmarks
Use bookmarks to easily locate specific lines in a file.
Select Toggle Bookmarks on the Editor toolbar to add/remove bookmarks. Click other
icons on this toolbar to move to the next or previous bookmark.
Breakpoint
Hardware Breakpoint: An event whose execution will cause a halt.
Software Breakpoint: An address where execution of the firmware will halt. Usually
achieved by a special break instruction.
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