It has always been Microchip’s goal to provide great silicon solutions to our customers. However, silicon is only part ofthe story. Support tools, such as programmers, compilers, reference designs, libraries, application notes, evaluationboards and the like are required to make your evaluation and product development process as effi cient as possible.Microchip considers a product released when the silicon and its appropriate support tools are ready for production.This document describes Microchip’s rapidly evolving solutions to support the ongoing enhancements to the 16-bitPIC24 Microcontrollers (MCUs) and dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), including: