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PICkit™ 3 STARTER KIT USER’S GUIDE
Preface
INTRODUCTION
This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before using the
PICkit™ 3 Starter Kit User’s Guide. Items discussed in this chapter include:
• Document Layout
• Conventions Used in this Guide
• Warranty Registration
• Recommended Reading
• The Microchip Web Site
• Development Systems Customer Change Notification Service
• Customer Support
• Document Revision History
DOCUMENT LAYOUT
This document describes how to use the PICkit™ 3 Starter Kit User’s Guide as a devel-
opment tool to emulate and debug firmware on a target board. The manual layout is as
follows:
• Section Chapter 1. “Overview”
• Section Chapter 2. “PIC® MCU Architecture”
• Section Chapter 3. “Lessons”
• Appendix A. “Block Diagram and MPLAB® X Shortcuts”
NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS
All documentation becomes dated, and this manual is no exception. Microchip tools and
documentation are constantly evolving to meet customer needs, so some actual dialogs
and/or tool descriptions may differ from those in this document. Please refer to our web site
(www.microchip.com) to obtain the latest documentation available.
Documents are identified with a “DS” number. This number is located on the bottom of each
page, in front of the page number. The numbering convention for the DS number is
“DSXXXXXA”, where “XXXXX” is the document number and “A” is the revision level of the
document.
For the most up-to-date information on development tools, see the MPLAB
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IDE online help.
Select the Help menu, and then Topics to open a list of available online help files.