Programming the PIC Microcontroller with MBASIC,
Edition 1
By Jack Smith
Publication Date:
14 Jun 2005
Description
The Microchip PIC family of microcontrollers is the most popular series of microcontrollers in the world. However, no microcontroller is of any use without software to make it perform useful functions. This comprehensive reference focuses on designing with Microchip’s mid-range PIC line using MBASIC, a powerful but easy to learn programming language. It illustrates MBASIC’s abilities through a series of design examples, beginning with simple PIC-based projects and proceeding through more advanced designs. Unlike other references however, it also covers essential hardware and software design fundamentals of the PIC microcontroller series, including programming in assembly language when needed to supplement the capabilities of MBASIC. Details of hardware/software interfacing to the PIC are also provided.BENEFIT TO THE READER: This book provides one of the most thorough introductions available to the world’s most popular microcontroller, with numerous hardware and software working design examples which engineers, students and hobbyists can directly apply to their design work and studies. Using MBASIC, it is possible to develop working programs for the PIC in a much shorter time frame than when using assembly language.
Key Features
- Offers a complete introduction to programming the most popular microcontroller in the world, using the MBASIC compiler from a company that is committed to supporting the book both through purchases and promotion
- Provides numerous real-world design examples, all carefully tested
About the author
By Jack Smith, Founder and Consultant, TeleworX, Vienna, VA.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents Preface Author’s Preface 1. Introduction to the PIC2. Introduction to MBASIC 3. The Basics-Outputs 4. The Basics--Inputs 5. LCD Display 6. Reading the Rotary Encoder 7. LED 7-segment display8. Introduction to Stepper Motors 9. Serial I/O 10. Interrupts and Timers in MBASIC 11. It’s an Analog World, After All 12. External sensors 13. Assembler 101 14. In-line assembler 15. Interrupt Handling and Timers in Assembler 16. Sine wave synthesis and low frequency DDS 17. Tone decoding 18. External memory interface 19. Advanced Stepper Motors 20. X-10 Interfacing 21. Communicating with a digital potentiometer 22. TV Type IR remote control 23. Controlling AC with a triac and solid state relay 24. DC motor speed control 25. Bar Code Reader 26. A Morse code keyer 27. Morse Code Reader 28. Data Logger 29. User’s Guide Corrections and Bugs A. Annex A – Parts list B. Function Index C. Companion website Contents
Book details
ISBN:
9780750679466
Page Count: 800
Retail Price
:
£61.99
Hellebuyck, Programming PIC Microcontrollers w/ PIC Basic, Newnes, 2002, $49.99, 256pp.Iovine, PIC Microcontroller Project Book: For PIC Basic and PIC Basic Pro, McGraw Hill, 2000, $29.99, 256pp.
Audience
Embedded Design Engineers, Computer Engineers, Software Engineers, System Engineers
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