[NLRS] Good Book on PICs?

[Stephen Hicks, N5AC]

Best book on PIC processors is Myke Predko's !

Steve

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On Dec 11, 2008, at 19:15, Chris Elmquist <chrise at pobox.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thursday (12/11/2008 at 11:22PM +0000), Scott wrote:
>>
>> Well, I'm done with RF for a while and looking for a new
>> challenge...learning how to use PICs.  The elctronics isn't scary  
>> and I did
>> learn machine language programming for the Intel 8085 and 8086 as  
>> well as
>> the Zilog Z80 CPUs, so I'm not afraid of that either.  Does anyone  
>> have a
>> good book in mind that covers the basics of PICs?
>
> My opinion is that the best resources are on the web.  You will find
> zillions of projects people have done with PICs and they are usually
> really well documented.  Many teachers and professors use them in  
> their
> course work and those can be found online too.  The Microchip  
> datasheets
> are all there at http://www.microchip.com as well as free development
> tools if you choose to program them in assembly.
>
> I did PIC stuff for years but then I got more excited about Atmel's
> AVR microcontrollers.  I'd encourage you to consider those as well.
> The advantage is that you can then also use the free GNU C compiler
> toolchain and do some really nice things quickly by programming in C.
> The TI MSP430 family would also fit this bill as they too are  
> supported by
> the GNU toolchain.  The PIC is not due to its fairly unique  
> architecture.
> You can however find other C and BASIC development tools for the PIC
> which you can purchase.
>
> I recommend development boards from these guys,
>
> http://www.olimex.com/dev/index.html
>
> which you can also purchase here,
>
> http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/categories.php
>
> Also, if you chose to follow the AVR path, then a very popular project
> these days is Arduino,
>
> http://www.arduino.cc/
>
> which is an Italian project to develop a simple platform that students
> could use to build computer capability into robots, toys, whatever.
> There are now many clones of the Arduino boards, many of which are  
> available
> from the Sparkfun outfit I referenced above.
>
> Fun stuff.  73, Chris NØJCF
>
> -- 
> Chris Elmquist
> mailto:chrise at pobox.com
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