PIC24F Microcontrollers :: hands-on tutorials, real time embedded projects

PIC24F Microcontrollers:

hands-on tutorials, real time embedded projects

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The intention of this website is to introduce students and hobbyist to the Microchip PIC24F family of 16 bits microcontrollers. It will be a step-by-step, hands–on tutorial and will drive you from the most basic stuff to a high complexity embedded applications.

A lot of embedded code targeting PIC24F microcontrollers is already available free of charge on the internet and we may reuse parts of this software. When this will be the case, precise details about the authors of the code will be provided. Also, Microchip is providing a lot of application notes for their microcontrollers and we may use them in our projects whenever will be needed.

We hope to provide you all the information needed to reproduce the projects and experiments from these tutorials. If this is not the case, please contact us. We are happy to receive your questions.

Contents:

CHAPTER I
Introduction to Microcontrollers

History
Central processing unit
Memory unit
Buses
Microcontrollers Architectures: Harvard vs Von Neumann
Microcontrollers Architectures: CISC vs RISC

CHAPTER II
Tools for Embedded Software Development

Assembler
C compiler
Linker
Simulator
Debugger
IDE

CHAPTER III
Getting Started

Creating your first MPLAB project for PIC24F
Debugging your application

CHAPTER V
General Purpose Input/Output Port

Introduction
Peripheral multiplexing
Peripheral pin remapping
Experiment: Understanding the difference between PORTx and LATx

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