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Hi,

Is there any way to know which pins on any microcontroller are useable for debugging and/or programming?

The PIC micros used to give a doc that told you, but others don't seem to.

With PICs, the programming pins were always RESET, VCC, VSS, ProgClk, ProgData.

Is it the same with others?

The datasheets often pinpoints some , but not all of the pins that are needed to  be brought

out for debugging and programming of prototypes.

In any case, I think I will just make a line of 5 SMD pads and that will have to do for prototype

debugging and programming as we don't have room for connectors for these.

Do you think this will suffice?....they can be "flying wired" off to whatever connector can be used for programming/

debugging.