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  • Programming and Customizing the Basic Stamp

    Scott Edwards

    Programming and Customizing the Basic Stamp
    CLASSIC GUIDE TO CUSTOMIZING BASIC STAMP FOR HOBBYISTS AND DESIGNERS

    If you want to take advantage of the popular PIC Microcontroller for your electronics projects, but are intimidated by the programming involved, your worries are over. Programming and Customizing the Basic Stamp, Second Edition gives you a comprehensive tutorial on the easy-to-use BASIC Stamp single-board computer, which runs a PIC Microcontroller, and doesn't require you to do any assembly language programming.

    This new edition moves you briskly from electronic foundations through BASIC Stamp "Boot Camps" and an intelligent traffic signal simulation to build a robotic bug with whisker sensors, a time/temperature display, and a data-logging thermometer.

    Written by Scott Edwards, the original author of the widely read "Stamp Applications" column for Nuts & Volts magazine, this easy-to-follow reference includes a CD that gives you all the IBM- compatible software tools necessary to begin developing Stamp applications.

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  • Applying PIC18 Microcontrollers: Architecture, Programming, and Interfacing using C and Assembly

    Barry B. Brey

    Applying PIC18 Microcontrollers: Architecture, Programming, and Interfacing using C and Assembly
    This book provides a comprehensive look into the architecture, programming, and interfacing of the microcontroller. Using the Microchip PIC18 family as a reference, it explains the architecture of the computer and the PIC18 microcontroller, discusses how to program in both assembly and in C-language, and then provides a solid discussion of interfacing, complete with a diverse set of examples. Unique to the book is its goal to introduce and explain as many devices as possible and show many complete system applications. All programs from the book are included on the accompanying CD-ROM and problems and examples further one’s proficiency in microcontroller interfacing, programming, and system design. Uses the newest 8-bit microcontroller available from Microchip because of its universality (i.e. what is learned about this family is applicable to the earlier families of microcontrollers from PIC as well as other microcontrollers from other manufacturers). Provides a complete look at microcontroller programming in both assembly language and in C-language. Covers more devices and interfacing examples than other books. Includes timing and details of interfacing to common electronic components. Offers examples of interfaces such as display devices, switches and keypads, motors, solenoids, relays, sensors, interrupts, infra-red remote controls, bar code readers and more.  Includes coverage of interfacing with the USB and the CAN and illustrated example applications.  Valuable to the experienced practitioner as a reference and to the hobbyist interested in learning about microcontrollers.
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  • PIC Microcontrollers, Second Edition: An Introduction to Microelectronics

    Martin P. Bates

    PIC Microcontrollers, Second Edition: An Introduction to Microelectronics
    The use of microcontroller based solutions to everyday design problems in electronics, is the most important development in the field since the introduction of the microprocessor itself. The PIC family is established as the number one microcontroller at an introductory level.

    Assuming no prior knowledge of microprocessors, Martin Bates provides a comprehensive introduction to microprocessor systems and applications covering all the basic principles of microelectronics.

    Using the latest Windows development software MPLAB, the author goes on to introduce microelectronic systems through the most popular PIC devices currently used for project work, both in schools and colleges, as well as undergraduate university courses. Students of introductory level microelectronics, including microprocessor / microcontroller systems courses, introductory embedded systems design and control electronics, will find this highly illustrated text covers all their requirements for working with the PIC.

    Part A covers the essential principles, concentrating on a systems approach. The PIC itself is covered in Part B, step by step, leading to demonstration programmes using labels, subroutines, timer and interrupts. Part C then shows how applications may be developed using the latest Windows software, and some hardware prototyping methods.

    The new edition is suitable for a range of students and PIC enthusiasts, from beginner to first and second year undergraduate level. In the UK, the book is of specific relevance to AVCE, as well as BTEC National and Higher National programmes in electronic engineering.

    · A comprehensive introductory text in microelectronic systems, written round the leading chip for project work
    · Uses the latest Windows development software, MPLAB, and the most popular types of PIC, for accessible and low-cost practical work
    · Focuses on the 16F84 as the starting point for introducing the basic architecture of the PIC, but also covers newer chips in the 16F8X range, and 8-pin mini-PICs
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  • Embedded Design with the PIC18F452

    John B. Peatman

    Embedded Design with the PIC18F452
    B> This book is developed around Microchip's latest family of parts, the PIC18FXXX family. It focuses on the PIC18F452, a new part brought to market in May 2002. It is intended that the reader will find a smooth path to the creative process of writing enhanced application code. This book attempts to organize and unify the development of these three capabilities: to understand and use components, to exploit powerful algorithmic processes, and to break down the complexity of an instrument or device so as to meet its specifications. The book is dedicated toward the development of creative design capability. Throughout this book, the approach taken is to introduce a template of assembly language code that encompasses a set of features of the PIC18F452 plus its interactions with some of the I/O devices resident on a small 4"x4" development board. For electrical engineers who work with the PIC18FXXX family.
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  • Easy Pic'N: A Beginners Guide to Using Pic16/17 Microcontrollers from Square 1

    David Benson

    Easy Pic'N: A Beginners Guide to Using Pic16/17 Microcontrollers from Square 1
    "Easy PIC'n" is intended to ease the beginner toward understanding and application of the PIC line of microcontrollers from Microchip Technology, Inc. The approach is hands-on with many examples, all of which may be demonstrated using a very simple demo board (a project) described at the beginning of the book. The reader is shown step-by-step how to write code. Examples of assembly language programs range from a simple one to turn on LED's to more complex ones for timing and for event-counting. Writing programs is covered in-depth and the use of flow charts as an aid to visualizing what a program does is emphasized. The reader's code is used to exercise the demo board giving tangible results.

    "Easy PIC'n" provides a crawl, walk, run approach to learning about PIC microcontrollers.

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  • The Quintessential PIC® Microcontroller (Computer Communications and Networks)

    Sid Katzen

    The Quintessential PIC® Microcontroller (Computer Communications and Networks)

    The Quintessential PIC® Microcontroller looks at one of the central technologies in many embedded computer and communication systems: the microcontroller. It approaches microcontrollers as the "intelligence" of smart digital systems and gives readers the confidence to design, construct and program a real working system using the popular PIC device as the exemplar. Written specifically for students with no prior knowledge of computing, electronics, or logic design, it is ideally suited as a textbook for relevant modules on Computer Science and Electronic Engineering degree courses. It is also relevant to students carrying out project work at final year undergraduate and postgraduate level, and to those on conversion MScs.

    Key features include:
    - The use of real-world hardware and software products to illustrate the material
    - Numerous fully worked examples and self-assessment questions
    - An associated web site providing solutions, further examples, and useful resources
    - Clear and concise presentation of key points and underlying concepts

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