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Are you spotting for basic material concerning the PIC microcontroller? This post can assist you to acquire precise basic information about the PIC microcontroller.





 

Introduction to PIC

PIC microcontrollers ( Programmable Interface Controllers), Digital Electronic circuits that may be programmed to accomplish enormous tasks. They will be programmed to be timers or to regulate an assembly line and far additional. They're found in most electronic devices like alarm systems, laptop management systems, phones, actually nearly any device. Many varieties of PIC microcontrollers exist, though the most effective is in all probability found within the jinnee vary of programmable microcontrollers. These are programmed and simulated by Circuit Wizard code.

 PIC Microcontrollers are comparatively low cost and might be bought as pre-built circuits or as kits that may be assembled by the user.

A brief history of the PIC microcontroller

In 1989, Microchip Technology Corporation introduced an 8-bit microcontroller
called the PIC, which stands for Peripheral Interface Controller. 

This microcontroller had little amounts of  RAM, a hundred bytes of on-chip read-only-memory for the program, one-timer, and limited pins for I/O ports, all on one chip with solely eight pins. It's superb that an organization that began with such a humble product became one in all the leading suppliers of 8-bit microcontrollers in but a decade.

At the time of this writing, Microchip is that the ideal provider of 8-bit microcontrollers within the world. Since the introduction of the PIC16xxx, they introduced many variants of 8-bit microcontrollers too various to list here. 

PIC families of 10xxx, 12xxx, 14xxx, 16xxx, 17xxx,
and 18xxx. They're all 8-bit processors, which means the central processing will work on solely 8 bits of data at a time. Data larger than eight bits must be broken into 8-bit chunks to be processed by the central processor.

One of the issues with the PIC family is that they're not all 100% upwards compatible in terms of code once going from one family to a different family. 

For example, whereas the 12xxx/16xxx have 12-bit and 14-bit wide instructions, the PIC 18xxx instruction is sixteen bits wide with several new opcodes. 

To execute code for the PIC 12xxx on a PIC 18, we have a tendency to should recompile
the program and presumably amendment some register locations before loading it into the PIC 18. 

At the time of this writing, the PIC 18xxx family has the best performance
of all the families of 8-bit PIC microcontrollers. The fact that PIC 18xxx is
available in 18- to 80-pin packages makes it a perfect choice for the latest and complex hardware designs.
because it permits a simple migration to additional powerful versions of the chip while not losing code compatibility. At this point, no 8-pin version of the PIC 18xxx exists, and which is that the main reason to settle on variants of the 10xxx-16xxx if your hardware design requiring a small package. We have a tendency to describe a number of the most options of this PIC18 family, we refer the reader to the Microchip website for alternate families of PIC 10xxx-16xxx. 

For those that have down the PIC18 family, working on the variants is incredibly straightforward and easy. The subsequent could be a transient description of the PIC 18 series.

PIC18 features:

The PIC18 contains RISC architecture that comes with some commonplace options
such as on-chip program (code) ROM, RAM, EEPROM, timers, ADC,
and USART and I/O ports.  

Although the scale of the program ROM, data RAM, data EEPROM, and I/O ports varies among the variants, all of them have peripherals like timers, ADC, and USART. 

Application Example of PIC18


interface LEDs with PIC Microcontroller 

interface "Seven Segment Display" with PIC Microcontroller

take input with PIC Microcontroller

"Seven Segment" Multiplexing with PIC Microcontroller

interface LCD with PIC Microcontroller

display text on 16x2 LCD with PIC Microcontroller
create custom characters on 16x2 LCD using a PIC
interface 16x2 LCD in 4-bit mode with PIC Microcontroller 
use Timers in PIC Microcontroller to generate a delay of the second 
work with inbuilt ADC Module of PIC Microcontroller and measure temperature
work with interrupts and build a small frequency counter 
configure EUSART in PIC Microcontroller and run the graphical user interface 
work with inbuilt Analog Comparators and develop light dependent switches
interface RFID with PIC Microcontroller and control robots
interface GPS with PIC18 Microcontroller and make your robot intelligent
interface GSM Module with PIC18 and develop android based controls
interface Servo Motor with PIC Microcontroller
interface Stepper Motor with PIC18F4550 Microcontroller
use inbuilt EEPROM of PIC18 Microcontroller and store data
use PIC as an SPI Slave Transmitter
Generate Sine Wave using PWM with PIC Microcontroller
How to Generate Sound using PWM with PIC Microcontroller
Use PIC Microcontroller For Voice Input And Output


What concerning you? Does one notice alternative applications with a pic microcontroller? Would you add something to the current list? Let me know below.
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