tailieunhanh - Programming 8-BIT PIC Microcontrollers in C with interactive hardware simulation

The PIC 16F877A microcontroller is used as the reference device in this book, as it contains a full range of peripherals and a reasonable memory capacity. It was also used in the previous work on interfacing, so there is continuity if the book series is taken as a complete course in PIC application development. Microcontrollers are traditionally programmed in assembly language, each type having its own syntax, which translates directly into machine code. Some students, teachers, and hobbyists may wish to skip a detailed study of assembler coding and go straight to C, which is generally simpler and more powerful | PROGRAMMING 8-BIT PIC MICROCONTROLLERS IN c with Interactive Hardware Simulation Utilizes the c programming language. the most popular lor microcontrollers Features Proteus VSM along with CCS PCM c compiler Questions assignments available al the end of each chapter Martin p. Bates Foreword Embedded microcontrollers are everywhere today. In the average household you will find them far beyond the obvious places like cell phones calculators and MP3 players. Hardly any new appliance arrives in the home without at least one controller and most likely there will be several one microcontroller for the user interface buttons and display another to control the motor and perhaps even an overall system manager. This applies whether the appliance in question is a washing machine garage door opener curling iron or toothbrush. If the product uses a rechargeable battery modern high density battery chemistries require intelligent chargers. A decade ago there were significant barriers to learning how to use microcontrollers. The cheapest programmer was about a hundred dollars and application development required both erasable windowed parts which cost about ten times the price of the one time programmable OTP version and a UV Eraser to erase the windowed part. Debugging tools were the realm of professionals alone. Now most microcontrollers use Flash-based program memory that is electrically erasable. This means the device can be reprogrammed in the circuit no UV eraser required and no special packages needed for development. The total cost to get started today is about twenty-five dollars which buys a PICkit 2 Starter Kit providing programming and debugging for many Microchip Technology Inc. MCUs. Microchip Technology has always offered a free Integrated Development Environment IDE including an assembler and a simulator. It has never been less expensive to get started with embedded microcontrollers than it is today. While MPLAB includes the assembler for free assembly code is more