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Unread 07-12-2006, 18:07
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Re: MPLAB

MPLAB is, as has already been stated above many times, an IDE. It's used my most teams who are not using Easy-C to program their robot.

MPLAB serves 2 main purposes. First, it is used to write the code itself. It is, effectively, just a text editor for this purpose.

It's second, and more useful purpose, is as a compiles. If the compiler is installed, it can build your code. It takes your text, which means nothing to the RC, and makes it into a HEX file (and various outer file types along the way)