MPLAB REAL ICE in-circuit emulator system is Microchip’s next generation high-speed emulator for their Flash DSC^® and MCU devices. It debugs and programs PIC^® and dsPIC^® Flash microcontrollers with the easy-to-use but powerful graphical user interface of the MPLAB integrated development environment (IDE), included with each kit.

The MPLAB REAL ICE probe is connected to the design engineer's PC using a high-speed USB 2.0 interface and is connected to the target with either a connector compatible with the popular MPLAB ICD 2 system (RJ11) or with the new high-speed, noise tolerant, low voltage differential signal (LVDS) interconnection (CAT5).

MPLAB REAL ICE is field upgradeable through future firmware downloads in MPLAB IDE. In upcoming releases of MPLAB IDE, new devices will be supported, and new features added.