i want to learn micro?

hello...
.iam in the last year electronics & electrical communication dept.
and i hope to learn microcontroller,is there any additional fields i need to read in to learn micro well.
thank you

hossam mahanna said:

hello...
.iam in the last year electronics & electrical communication dept.
and i hope to learn microcontroller,is there any additional fields i need to read in to learn micro well.
thank you

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Fairly generic question, perhaps an intro book into the specific micro your looking at getting into would do the trick?

Well, if you want to get started in Microcontrollers, try a PIC. I use the PIC16F876A because it was what I first saw and it was supported in the JDM programmer I bought. Since the PIC assembly instruction set is so small (35 instructions), it's useful to learn Assembly so you can quickly make programs. Oh, and it's free, unlike alot of PIC C and PICBasic compilers.

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This is where I got the hang of PIC ASM. Also, download the trial of the PIC Simulator, you'll see it referred to in a few other forum posts. You can prototype code to see how it'll run in a real PIC, and find any stupid mistakes before you have to spend the time programming it on the real hardware.

or go AVR.
It's cheaper, Faster and has a cooler name.
Also you can get a development board+programmer+ICE+DW for just 50$ in digikey (STK500+Dragon)

Developed with C i mind so no need for this hideous ASM, that wastes most of your time. and C compilers are free and open source (GCC (LibC) and WinAVR)

go AVR!
If 8 bits isn't enough, go AVR32. 32 bits of raw computing power. enough to run a PC (I suppose your PC has the same number of bits. At least your CPU).

bloody-orc said:

or go AVR.
It's cheaper, Faster and has a cooler name.
Also you can get a development board+programmer+ICE+DW for just 50$ in digikey (STK500+Dragon)

Developed with C i mind so no need for this hideous ASM, that wastes most of your time. and C compilers are free and open source (GCC (LibC) and WinAVR)

go AVR!
If 8 bits isn't enough, go AVR32. 32 bits of raw computing power. enough to run a PC (I suppose your PC has the same number of bits. At least your CPU).

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How do you pronounce Atmel? (@ - Meal?)