Microchip's MPLAB gets new in-circuit debugger ICD 4

To load new firmware into a microcontroller and then debug it usually a special tool is required: the in-circuit programmer/debugger. Microchip’s PIC microcontrollers are no exception to this, and till today the preferred tool for programing and debugging PIC micros was the MPLAB ICD 3, the puck-shaped device that supported the full range of PIC and dsPIC devices. Now, after many years of loyal services the MPLAB ICD 3 is finally being replaced by the MPLAB ICD 4.