Debug/Debugger
See
ICE/ICD
.
Debugging Information
Compiler and assembler options that, when selected, provide varying degrees of information used to debug
application code. See compiler or assembler documentation for details on selecting debug options.
Deprecated Features
Features that are still supported for legacy reasons, but will eventually be phased out and no longer used.
Device Programmer
A tool used to program electrically programmable semiconductor devices such as microcontrollers.
Digital Signal Controller
A digital signal controller (DSC) is a microcontroller device with digital signal processing capability, i.e., Microchip
dsPIC DSC devices.
Digital Signal Processing\Digital Signal Processor
Digital signal processing (DSP) is the computer manipulation of digital signals, commonly analog signals (sound or
image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). A digital signal processor is a microprocessor that is
designed for use in digital signal processing.
Directives
Statements in source code that provide control of the language tool’s operation.
Download
Download is the process of sending data from a host to another device, such as an emulator, programmer or target
board.
DWARF
Debug With Arbitrary Record Format. DWARF is a debug information format for ELF files.
EEPROM
Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. A special type of PROM that can be erased electrically. Data
is written or erased one byte at a time. EEPROM retains its contents even when power is turned off.
ELF
Executable and Linking Format. An object file of this format contains machine code. Debugging and other information
is specified in with DWARF. ELF/DWARF provide better debugging of optimized code than COFF.
Emulation/Emulator
See
ICE/ICD
.
Endianness
The ordering of bytes in a multi-byte object.
Environment
MPLAB PM3 – A folder containing files on how to program a device. This folder can be transferred to a SD/MMC
card.
Glossary
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User Guide
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