MPLAB ICD 3 In-Circuit Debugger User's Guide

MPLAB ® ICD 3 IN-CIRCUITDEBUGGER USER’S GUIDEGlossaryAbsolute SectionA section with a fixed (absolute) address that cannot be changed by the linker.Access Memory (PIC18 Only)Special registers on PIC18 devices that allow access regardless of the setting of theBank Select Register (BSR).AddressValue that identifies a location in memory.Alphabetic CharacterAlphabetic characters are those characters that are letters of the arabic alphabet(a, b, …, z, A, B, …, Z).AlphanumericAlphanumeric characters are comprised of alphabetic characters and decimal digits(0,1, …, 9).ANSIAmerican National Standards Institute is an organization responsible for formulatingand approving standards in the United States.ApplicationA set of software and hardware that may be controlled by a PIC microcontroller.ArchiveA collection of relocatable object modules. It is created by assembling multiple sourcefiles to object files, and then using the archiver to combine the object files into onelibrary file. A library can be linked with object modules and other libraries to createexecutable code.ArchiverA tool that creates and manipulates libraries.ASCIIAmerican Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character set encoding thatuses 7 binary digits to represent each character. It includes upper and lower caseletters, digits, symbols and control characters.AssemblerA language tool that translates assembly language source code into machine code.Assembly LanguageA programming language that describes binary machine code in a symbolic form.Asynchronous StimulusData generated to simulate external inputs to a simulator device.© 2008 Microchip Technology Inc. DS51766A-page 85