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Learning the PIC micro-controller @ PCB Heaven
Welcome to our first on-line book!

This book will guide you through the programming techniques for the PIC micro controllers, starting from the very beginning knowledge. This book has three sections: The Beginner's section, the Indeterminate and the Advanced section. Each section will has two parts: The first part is the theory and the second one it the practice. The theoretical part contains all the theory according to the section's level, with detailed explanation and straightforward articles. It also contains on-line multiple choice tests at the end of each article, to confirm your knowledge so far.

The practical part, contains fully explained PIC circuit tutorials based on the theoretical part. Each tutorial will contain the complete PIC code, explanation on how it works and a demonstrating video.

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Book Contents


Basics
 
What will you need
 1
 
Choosing the right PIC
 2
The MPLAB
 
Getting familiar with the MPLAB environment
 3
 
Creating a new project
 4
 
Open and close projects
 5
 
Creating new files and including them in the project
 6
 
Your very first assembly program
 7
 
Compile a program and transfer to the PIC
 8
Section 1: Beginner's theory
Memory Organization
 
The Data Memory Organization
 9
 
The Program Memory Organization
 10
The instructions
 
General knowledge about instructions
 11
 
Value Loading Instructions
 12
 
Program Flow Instructions
 13
 
Mathematic Instructions
 14
 
Logic Function Instructions
 15
 
Bit Orientated Instructions
 16
 
Byte Orientated Instructions
 17
 
Miscellaneous Instructions
 18
The Basic Special Function Registers
 
The Status Register
 19
 
The Option_Reg Register
 20
 
The TRIS and PORT registers
 21
Beginner's PIC Tutorials
 
How to use our PIC Tutorials
 22
 
A Pushbutton turning an LED on and off
 23
 
A Simple LED Flasher
 24
 
Interfacing Multiple Switches - The internal Pull-Up resistors
 25
 
An LED Sequencer
 26
 
Interface a Single 7seg Digit
 27
 
Interface Multiple 7seg Digits
 28
 
A 3-digits Decimal Counter
 29
 
A Clever Button
 30
Section 2: Intermediate theory
 
Instruction Cycle Duration and Calculated Delays
 31
 
The Timer Modules - Timer0
 32
 
The Timer Modules - Timer1
 33
 
The Timer Modules-Timer2
 34



No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise without the prior written permission of the author.

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What will follow?


The book is not finished yet. It will have three sections: The beginner, the intermediate and the advanced sections. Each one will have it's own theory, tests and tutorials. So do not forget to visit this on-line book frequently.


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