PICkit 5 reverse engineering & repair: Microchip dropped Real ICE: welcome to Thin Ice
For years I’ve been using Microchip’s official Real ICE in-circuit emulator for programming and debugging PIC processors. Then Murphy’s Law struck while I had to download firmware to a fresh batch of boards - something went wrong, and I didn’t even know it yet. After a few failed attempts, I discovered to my surprise that Microchip had dropped support for the Real ICE in MPLAB X IDE version 6.25 and newer. So now this rather expensive but perfectly functional tool can sit on the shelf and look pretty. ...