Hi everybody,

I was about raising a point about PBP and Real ICE but the search engine returned me the same question I asked 9 years ago !!! Amazing...

Well. When I developped my first product with the PIC18F2685 the question was Real Ice or PicKit 2. I selected PicKit 2 which was a good and cheap choice.

My next product is PIC18F26K22 based, again with PBP3 and MPLAB8 but PicKit 2 does not work with this PIC and PicKit 3 is an horrible tool.
Slow response time with MPLAB8, sometimes hangs and still no real time debugging capabilities which can now be ennoying for what I want to do.

Real ICE could be an interesting alternative.
Does anybody have some experience with it ?

Any feedback welcome !

MikeBZH