User Interfaces for MPLAB®

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✨ Features

Project Properties

User Interface (UI) for configuring MPLAB projects.

IO View

Provides a detailed IO view for MPLAB projects.

Tools and Kits

The Tools and kits views provide graphical interfaces within MPLAB extension, offering an organized display of the tools and kits connected to your machine. It's designed to allow users to quickly access and inspect details about their hardware.

🏃‍♀️ Getting started

Project Properties

Create an MPLAB project using the command MPLAB: Create New Project.
Open the project settings view using the command MPLAB: Edit Project Properties (UI) or right click the project file.
Add and configure configurations, file sets, toolchains etc. Changes will be written to the project file.

Screenshot

IO View

Open an MPLAB project.
Open IO View using the command MPLAB IO View: Show
Manaully refresh the peripheral registers using the command MPLAB IO View: Refresh
Save the value of peripheral registers to file using the command MPLAB IO View: Save peripheral registers to file

Tools and Kits

Click the MPLAB icon in the VS Code Activity Bar (left sidebar of VS Code) to open the Tools container.
The Tools container automatically updates when a device is connected or disconnected.
The Tools container includes the following controls in its title bar.
- Gear icon : Opens the Project Properties page in the tool settings
- Info icon : Opens the Kit Information page which provides a detailed overview of all connected kits.
- refresh icon : Refreshes the Tools tree.
Each kit displayed in the Tools tree includes a set of controls in its header.
Available Actions :
- Kit information - Opens the Kit info page for the selected Kit.
- Pinout viewer - Opens the Pinout page for the selected kit.

💬 Supported commands

Using Command Palette (CMD/CTRL + Shift + P)

Open the projects properties view

> MPLAB: Edit Project Properties (UI)

Open the IO View

> MPLAB IO View: Show

Refresh the IO View

> MPLAB IO View: Refresh

Save registers to file

> MPLAB IO View: Save peripheral to registers to file

Listing files in project

> MPLAB: List Included Files

List the connected Kits in the output window

> MPLAB: List Kits Info

Open the MPLAB Kits information view

> MPLAB: Show Kits view

List the connected Tools in the output window

> MPLAB: List Tools Info

Open the MPLAB Tools information view

> MPLAB: Show Tools view

List Pinouts info in the output window

> MPLAB: List pinouts info

Open Pinouts view

> MPLAB: Show pinouts view

📦 Requirements

MPLAB Services

To get toolchain support:

MPLAB XC Compilers installation
MPLAB Toolchain Support - Interact with installed MPLAB XC Compilers

🐞 Feedback and issue reporting

Go to mplabfeedback.microchip.com to report issues and suggest enhancements.

📝 License Information

The MPLAB® Extensions for Visual Studio Code are distributed under a non-exclusive software license agreement provided by Microchip Technology Inc. To review the complete terms and conditions governing the use of this software, please consult the "license" file included with this package.