I just started with microchip world.
I'm about to buy a PicKit3 and i've seen it can outputs from 1.8V to 14V MCLR.
The pic i will use is the PIC16F1829 and it should work with MCLR @ 5V.
In the datasheet it seems i would need a zener/shunt to limit the voltage. First of all isn't there a board ready to play with?
Can i use LVP? If so using MPLab 8 IDE how do i change in LVP? Is the pin connection the same?
Since i haven't bought it yet i would rather avoid burning a pic
Regards,
In the IDE i've set the voltage appropriately and everything went ok on its own. I didn't have to enable anything fancy