I’m preparing to start a new project using a (to me) new mcu (pic32). I will probably need some new debug gear. I noticed the availability of a RTOSviewer for MPLABx. After googling a while, I could not find which debug tools I can use this viewer with. Microchip has the PicKit3, ICD3 and RealICE. Which of these allow the use of the rtosviewer?
I’m not really an expert on these things, so take my advice lightly, but for standard debugging I have found the ICD 3 more than capable. I think the Real ICE is necessary for the more sophisticated tracing on the PIC32 though.
The ICD3 and REAL ICE share the same basic guts. High Speed USB and the FPGA, so they debug/read/write/program at the same speed.
The ICE adds some features such as the trace and some input/output pins.
But to do really high speed trace you need to shell out more loot for the high speed interface.
ICD3 should be fine for most uses. The ICD2 is discontinued and it is a bit slow being USB full speed.