Microchip ICE 2000 alternative

[rsmatias]

Anyone knows of any alternative to the ICE2000 development tool?
It's very expensive and most 99% of developers cannot afford it.

Thanks,
Rodrigo

 

[g579]

Try Clearview Matthias. Look at www.tech-tools.com

 

[rsmatias]

First of all thanks for your answer.
It connects to the serial port, what is very good in my opinion. I prefer this option than the paralel port. And it's cheaper to convert to USB.
I like most of the features I read on the webpage. The IDE (TDE) looks very complete. Do you know anyone using this hardware that could help getting more details on it?

It would be great not only for me, but for all the people that reads this forum and knows how expensive is ICE 2000 (who would ever understand why!).

Best regards,
Rodrigo

 

[luben111]

Hello,

Before you jump to ICE2000, did you worked with ICD and ICD2? In more of the cases they do excellent job, by viewing registers, stepping the program, looking the EEPROM, etc.

I used Mathias some time ago - it's like ICD with multiple break points (was no trace memory in my model).

ICE2000 has the ability to record many steps before the event occures, so you can understand easy what's up.

regards
Luben

 

[g579]

rsmatias,

You can download full operating manual and many more things from Tech-Tools, so you can compare it with ICD and ICD2, and of coarse with your expectations.
g579

 

[rsmatias]

Hi,

I haven't tried any of this options. Neither ICD, ICD2, ICE2000 or any other tool. Since I started using microchip processors I allways programmed Assembler and programmed ICs for testing or proto-boards.
But problem comes when trying to solve "weird" problems on program runtime.
Sometimes I send hours, days, trying to solve a problem that I know that it would be solved in a question of minutes, using a real time debug, or an incircuit debugger.

But maybe ICD2 can help me solving my problems this time. ICE2000 is still VERY EXPENSIVE.

I'll read some more information on the options available and decide on what's the best solution.

If I have any other question, I'll put it here.

Thanks for your help.
Rodrigo