Programming 16-Bit PIC Microcontrollers in C: Learning to Fly the PIC 24 (Embedded Technology) (Embedded Technology)
| 2007-03-16 00:00:00 | | 0 | Computer Engineering
. A Microchip insider tells all on the newest, most powerful PICs ever!
. FREE CD-ROM includes source code in C, the Microchip C30 compiler, and MPLAB SIM software
. Includes handy checklists to help readers perform the most common programming and debugging tasks
The new 16-bit PIC24 chip provides embedded programmers with more speed, more memory, and more peripherals than ever before, creating the potential for more powerful cutting-edge PIC designs. This book teaches readers everything they need to know about these chips: how to program them, how to test them, and how to debug them, in order to take full advantage of the capabilities of the new PIC24 microcontroller architecture.
Author Lucio Di Jasio, a PIC expert at Microchip, offers unique insight into this revolutionary technology, guiding the reader step-by-step from 16-bit architecture basics, through even the most sophisticated programming scenarios. This book's common-sense, practical, hands-on approach begins simply and builds up to more challenging exercises, using proven C programming techniques. Experienced PIC users and newcomers to the field alike will benefit from the text's many thorough examples, which demonstrate how to nimbly side-step common obstacles, solve real-world design problems efficiently, and optimize code for all the new PIC24 features.
You will learn about:
. basic timing and I/O operations,
. multitasking using the PIC24 interrupts,
. all the new hardware peripherals
. how to control LCD displays,
. generating audio and video signals,
. accessing mass-storage media,
. how to share files on a mass-storage device with a PC,
. experimenting with the Explorer 16 demo board, debugging methods with MPLAB-SIM and ICD2 tools, and more!
·A Microchip insider tells all on the newest, most powerful PICs ever!
·Condenses typical introductory `fluff` focusing instead on examples and exercises that show how to solve common, real-world design problems quickly
·Includes handy checklists to help readers perform the most common programming and debugging tasks
·FREE CD-ROM includes source code in C, the Microchip C30 compiler, and MPLAB SIM software, so that readers gain practical, hands-on programming experience
·Check out the author's Web site at http://www.flyingpic24.com for FREE downloads, FAQs, and updates
User review
Flying the PIC24
This book is pretty good, but lacks the hardware explanations and schematics. It relies heavily on Microchip Explorer 16, but doesn't go into creating your own designs.
User review
Excellent Pic 24 Primer !
As the review title suggests, this book is an excellent Pic 24 primer easy to follow for students and industry engineers alike. Clearly illistrated and generally well thought out.
However, this book excludes any material on bootloaders, serial or usb which I believe is an important aspect of a high end microcontroller in the field.
User review
Best PIC Book ever,,
This is the best book about PIC that you can buy. Its written in a easy to read English (English may be a problem for foreigns like me) and the book has a lot of examples of Microchip C compiler.
User review
Enough of the flight analogies,,.
This is a pretty decent PIC programming book. I used it in my PIC class and was able to do fairly well (B+), which is awesome considering I never had a day of C-programming. The software that is bundled with the book is pretty easy to use, and the book does a good job explaining many of the programs aspects. And the sample code was very beneficial in solving both lab and homework problems.
The only down fall is that the author of this book obviously is a flying enthusist/pilot. Every chapter (and seemingly, every paragraph) has some reference to a plane, flying, or pilot training. It becomes annoying and repetitive. If you get past it though, it's a decent book.
User review
This is the best book on embedded gcc
This book pretends to be a programming book on the PIC24 16-bit microcontroller family from Microchip. And if it were only that, it would easily earn a 5 rating. But the author has gone way beyond his calling. He turned this into a real insider's view of what gcc is doing under the covers with this MCU. This is better than good because there are so few good books on embedded C programming, and none of them do a good job of showing both sides. As a C programmer you normally don't care what the computer is doing under the covers. But as an embedded C programmer this is critical information! So I'd like to give this book a 10: 5 for PIC24 coverage and 5 for under-the-cover info on what gcc is doing. Even if you don't use the PIC 24, you need this book!