PIC Suggestions

[Tobias]

I see that some PICS don't have the In-Circuit-Debug functionality. Ideally I would like to keep this feature. Thanks for the advice.

[Darrel Taylor]

With 1 digital input, and 1 digital output, I doubt that you'll really have a need for In-Circuit-Debugging.

However, with that said,... ICD comes in several different forms.

There's the ICD2 programmer/debugger and it's various Cloned versions found on eBay. They only work with MPLAB from Microchip.
MPLAB also has a simulator built in so for some things, you don't even need to have hardware connected.

Then there's the In-Circuit-Debugger that comes with Microcode Studio Plus, which only works with PIC chips that have a USART onboard, and assumes you are using PicBasic Pro.

Other simple debugging techniques can be applied to any PIC by using the ON DEBUG GOTO command in PBP.

So, I guess it comes back to ... it depends on what you mean by "ICD ready".