IDEA is a software for MU Beta and MU Alpha In-Circuit Emulators.
IDEA = Integrated Design Environment for ASIX In-Circuit Emulators.
It runs under Windows 95/98/ME/2K/XP/Vista.

Documentation

HELP.CHM (Compiled HTML format, 59 KB)
Complete help for MU Beta and IDEA design environment. Please, read at least the "Getting Started" chapter before installation.

Current version

IDEA 1.50 (executable installer, 2 249 402 B)
If you have installed the preliminary IDEA version (ver. 1.0 or lower), please uninstall it before installing this version. Otherwise you can install over the existing installation - this saves all your previous settings.

Previous versions

IDEA 1.42 (executable installer, 2 230 957 B)

IDEA_1-43_EXE-ONLY.ZIP (ZIP archive, 523 148 B) - please unzip this file and replace the IDEA.EXE after the 1.42 installation by this new version; this program version fixes a problem with bad visibility of the StopWatch window contents under some OS's.

hardware_archive.zip (ZIP archive, 832 076 B) - archived old version of PIC emulation models (if new version does not work as you expected :-), unzip and replace the files in the ...\IDEA\Hardware directory

USB drivers for EMUSB

• For Windows 2000/Server2003/XP/Vista/7:
  ASIX_EMUSB_DRIVERS_WINDOWS_2K_XP_VISTA_7_2009-08-27.ZIP (ZIP, 1.1 MB)
• For Windows 98SE/ME:
  ASIX_EMUSB_DRIVERS_W98-ME_2008-06-13.ZIP (ZIP, 263 KB)

Version History

History.txt - description of improvements, changes and bugfixes. (Opens in separate window).