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Hi,

I'm planning to learn to program uC32 which is Arduino compatible PIC32 based development board.

I have read that either MPIDE or MPLAB can be used to program uC32. I think that using MPIDE would be a better choice. But I came across the following note and it doesn't make any sense to me. Especially, what does the part "MPIDE has been rolled into the official Arduino distribution" mean? Does it mean that MPIDE has become part of official Arduino IDE?

Note:
As of August 2015- MPIDE has been rolled into the official Arduino distribution. Stand-alone MPIDE will still be available to download, but future bug fixes and development will be shifted to maintaining the chipKIT libraries for the Arduino IDE. To learn more you can visit chipKIT.net's post " Intro to the chipKIT Platform"

Source: Software Solutions - Digilent

I did check the mentioned post, https://chipkit.net/intro-to-chipkit-platform/, but it didn't make any sense to me.

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It means that rather than having a separate ide, the pic32 support was changed into a “core” that can be added to the regular arduino ide with the “board manager.”

Try the instructions here: https://chipkit.net/wiki/index.php?title=How-To_Install_chipKIT_Core

(Note that mpide is essentially identical to earlier versions of the arduino ide.)

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westfw:
(Not that mpide is essentially identical to earlier versions of the arduino ide.)

Thank you!

Did you mean to write "Note"?

I plan to experiment with uC32 over the weekend.

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Did you mean to write "Note"?

Yes. Cursed iPad "keyboard." :frowning:
(fixed)

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Thank you for the clarification!