Microchip Technology PICkit 3 Starter Kit DV164130 DV164130 User Manual

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DV164130
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PICkit™ 3 USER’S GUIDE
© 2009 Microchip Technology Inc.
DS51795A-page 71
Glossary
Absolute Section
A 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 the 
Bank Select Register (BSR).
Access Entry Points
Access entry points provide a way to transfer control across segments to a function 
which may not be defined at link time. They support the separate linking of boot and 
secure application segments.
Address
Value that identifies a location in memory.
Alphabetic Character
Alphabetic characters are those characters that are letters of the arabic alphabet
(a, b, …, z, A, B, …, Z).
Alphanumeric
Alphanumeric characters are comprised of alphabetic characters and decimal digits 
(0,1, …, 9).
ANDed Breakpoints
Set up an ANDed condition for breaking, i.e., breakpoint 1 AND breakpoint 2 must 
occur at the same time before a program halt. This can only be accomplished if a data 
breakpoint and a program memory breakpoint occur at the same time.
Anonymous Structure
An unnamed structure.
Anonymous Structure
An unnamed structure that is a member of a C union. The members of an anonymous 
structure may be accessed as if they were members of the enclosing union. For exam-
ple, in the following code, hi and lo are members of an anonymous structure inside the 
union caster.
union castaway
 int intval;
 struct {
  char lo; //accessible as caster.lo
  char hi; //accessible as caster.hi
 };
} caster;
ANSI
American National Standards Institute is an organization responsible for formulating 
and approving standards in the United States.
Application
A set of software and hardware that may be controlled by a PIC microcontroller.