getting started guide v5.0 mpsimx

Getting Started with Microchip Technical Training Live Online

Classes

Mark Reynolds Microchip Technology Inc.

V5.0 July 2013

Table of Contents

What’s Included ...................................................................................... 1-1 Step by Step Checklist ........................................................................... 2-1 Install MPLAB X IDE ............................................................................... 3-1 Install the XC compiler ........................................................................... 4-1 Install your Class files ............................................................................ 6-1 Run and Debug to Obtain the Verification Message ........................... 7-1 Get Help .................................................................................................. 8-1

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GETTING STARTED GUIDE

What’s Included

The download folder includes the development tools and the minimal versions of those tools that are compatible with the class. If you have already installed a newer version of the tool, you may use that. Start by downloading all the files, then read the ‘_READ ME FIRST.PDF’ instructions

Download folder

Example


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Step by Step Checklist

Download the files in the download folder Read the flyer ‘_READ ME FIRST.PDF’ Install MPLAB X IDE Install the XC Compiler for your class Install the Proteus VSM simulator Install the Proteus Plug-In into MPLAB X IDE Unzip ‘<classname> Student Install.zip’ Run and debug the project ‘_Getting Started.X’

to get the verification message

Checklist


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Install

Development Environment: MPLAB® IDE X

Operating System: PC Windows XP or Vista or Windows 7

Once you have downloaded the MPLAB X installer, installation is easy.

Browse to where the installer was downloaded. You are looking for the file called:

mplabx-ide-vX.XX-windows-installer.exe

4 Installing

Requirements

Double click the installer

You may be asked to verify that you want to run this program. If so, click yes.


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You will need to agree to the License and

Click Next

Done ! Just click Finish

Click Next

Click Next

Click Next


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Install XC Compiler

Double-click the installer provided in the download folder for your class. Depending upon which class you are taking, it will be named: MPLAB-XC8-vX.XX-windows.exe

MPLAB-XC16-vX.XX-windows.exe

MPLAB-XC32-vX.XX-windows.exe

Then click Next

Procedure

You will need to agree to the License Agreement

Click Next

Choose the type of license. We recommend you use the ‘Install Compiler’ option.

Then click Next


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Click Finish

And you’re done!

Click Yes

Accept default se-

lection to install C compiler directly

onto this computer.

Click Next

Leave activation key

field empty.

Click Next

Accept default se-

lection to run com-piler in free mode

Click Next

Accept default com-

piler path

Click Next

Accept default se-

lection to modify PATH variable

Click Next


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Install Student Files

Procedure

The ‘<classname> Student Install.zip’ file is a Winzip file that includes all the training material for a class. Once you have registered you will have received the link to the tools and class materials. This file will be named in the format of:

PRExxx Student Install.zip (Example: TLS0000 Student Install.zip )

Class Prefix COM — Communications MCT — Motor Control MCU — MCU Product Families PWR — Power Management TLS — Tools XLP — Extreme Low Power

Class number This separates the different classes. Higher numbers are generally more advanced.

Use an Unzip tool to open the Student Install.zip file and unpack all the files to the folder:

C:\MTT\ Then click Unzip

If you change the default path dur-ing the unzip the lab manuals used in class will have the wrong path names.

Then Unzip

Browse to the folder:

C:\MTT\


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Copies of the Lab Manual and all

the presentation material that will be used in class

Useful documents and Litera-

ture pertaining to the class

Lab exercises and their solutions

The ‘Getting Started’ lab folder

Here is an example of a typical unzipped Student Install

A copy of this guide

Any additional tools that may

be required for class

A copy of the READ ME FIRST

flyer Schematic file for

Proteus


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Run the Getting Started Lab

Open MPLAB X by double clicking the icon on your desktop.

Getting the verification message

When the desktop opens, go to the File menu in the upper left corner.


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Now click Open Project

Browse to the folder: C:\MTT\<classname>\_GettingStarted.X

Once you have selected the folder, click ‘Open Project’


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Everything will load for you. All you need to do is click on Debug -> Debug Project

or click on the shortcut icon shown below.

You may need to click the CONTINUE icon to start the simulation. Depending upon the MPLAB X configuration, the simulation may start automatically, or it may need to be manually started by clicking CONTINUE


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Congratulations!

You are ready for your MTT Live Online class

For MPSIMX: The verification message is displayed in the UART 1 Output window


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Get Help

If you have tried everything and the Getting Started Lab still will not run, we have several options to get help.

Join us for a free class titled TLS0000.

Th is c lass, “Getting

Started with Microchip

Live Online” was created

to help get you unstuck. A live instructor will guide you through the entire process of getting ready for your class.

Contact us through : www.microchip.com/

support

Here you can ask specific questions if you are stuck on a single topic.


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Get Help

Sign into the forums on www.microchip.com. You can review previous posts or post your own questions. Microchip Technical Training engi-neers monitor these forums closely. Each class has its own forum so you can post class specific questions. Just search on the topic TRAINING.

www.microchip.com/forums

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