PIC Tutorials

The following tutorial series introduce Microchip's PIC microcontrollers, beginning with an overview of the PIC family and the development environment recommended for these lessons.

The lessons cover the baseline and midrange PIC architectures using assembly language and freely-available PIC C compilers.

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Introduction to PIC Microcontrollers
Recommended Development Environment
Updated 18/7/08

Baseline PIC Architecture and Assembly Language
Digital I/O, switch debouncing, timer0, sleep mode, the watchdog timer,
comparators, ADC, delay routines, assembler macros, relocatable code,
lookup tables, 7-segment displays, multiplexing, long arithmetic, arrays and more
Lessons 5-7 updated 19/6/09

Midrange PIC Architecture and Assembly Language
Digital I/O, switch debouncing, timer0, sleep mode, the watchdog timer,
delay routines, relocatable code, assembler macros, interrupts,
oscillator modes, brown-out detection and more
Lessons 2,4-8 updated 4/7/09

Baseline PIC C Programming
Introducing the "free" HI-TECH C PRO, HI-TECH PICC-Lite and CCS PCB compilers
Digital I/O, switch debouncing, using timer0, sleep mode, the watchdog timer,
lookup tables, 7-segment displays, multiplexing, comparators, ADC, banked memory and more
Lessons 1-3 updated 19/6 - 4/7/09

Midrange PIC C Programming
Introducing the "free" HI-TECH C PRO and PICC-Lite compilers
Digital I/O, switch debouncing, using timer0, sleep mode, the watchdog timer,
oscillator modes, brown-out detection and more
Lesson 1 updated 4/7/09
Lesson 5 on clock options, power-on reset and brown-out detection added 24/5/09

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