KTechLab is an Open Source Integrated Design Environment (IDE) for electronic and PIC microcontroller circuit design and simulation. Featuring an extensive circuit designer with autorouting and a library of many common analog and digital electronic components and logic elements, KTechLab is the ideal tool for educational or hobbyist use. KTechLab features an easy to use, flowchart based PIC program designer - Flowcoder; along with a BASIC like programming language called Microbe and support for Assembly and C languages. Programs designed by these tools can be added to any circuit design as a 'virtual' PIC allowing complex microcontroller based circuits to be created. Circuits and Flowcharts can be simulated on-the-fly in order to quickly asses their performance. KTechLab supports a wide range of Open Source PIC programmers, enabling finalized PIC programs to be quickly and easily transfered to a real PIC microcontroller. In short KTechLab consists of several well-integrated components:

• A circuit simulator, capable of simulating logic, linear devices and some nonlinear devices;
• Integration with gpsim, allowing PICs to be simulated in circuit;
• A schematic editor, which provides a rich real-time feedback of the simulation;
• A flowchart editor, allowing PIC programs to be constructed visually;
• MicroBASIC; a BASIC-like compiler for PICs, written as a companion program to KTechlab;
• An embedded Kate editor part, which provides a powerful editor for PIC programs;
• Integrated assembler and disassembler via gpasm and gpdasm (Gputils package).

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• AT89S4051;
• T83C5102;
• TS87C52X2;
• AT80C58X2;
• TS80C54X2;
• ...and many others!

• Editor with syntax highlight and validation;
• 8051 Assembler, Disassembler and Simulator;
• Project management;
• Hexadecimal editor for eXternal RAM and Code memory;
• Graph showing voltage levels on ports;
• Register watches;
• Export to XHTML and LaTeX;
• Conversions between IHEX8 and Binary;
• ...and many other things!

           

PiKdev is an IDE for the development of PIC-based applications; it is based on the Kate editor, which is part of the standard KDE distribution. It currently supports assembly language; C language is also supported for PIC 18 devices. The programming engine of PiKdev can be used from a non graphical user interface named pkp; pkp has a simple command line interface and can be used by people who do not use KDE or use an old Linux distribution. Pikdev supports USB PICkit2 programmer from Microchip, but Pikdev can drive parallel port programmers and serial port programmers; click here for a non exhaustive list of such programmers. Unlike some other programming softwares, PiKdev uses the parallel port in user mode, therefore you do not need to execute it with root privileges. Since version 1.1.0, Pikdev needs pk2cmd version 1.20.0 (or higher) from Microchip; source code, executable binary for the kernel 2.4.x.y and executable binary for the kernel 2.6.x.y. For more information about Pikdev, click here.

           

Microchip’s line of PIC microcontrollers remain very popular, despite their development environment being more proprietary than those of other microcontrollers. Piklab is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for applications based on Microchip PIC and dsPIC microcontrollers (similar to the MPLAB environment) and a number of open-source tools and tying them together in a single environment. The Small Device C Compiler (SDCC), the GNU PIC Utilities (Gputils) the PICC-lite, PICC and PICC-18 compilers, and the PIC30 toolchain are supported. The ICD2 debugger, the PICkit2 programmer, and several direct programmers are supported (e.g. Gpsim and so on). Some features of Piklab;

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