hi guys
I'm zero to PIC and I need your quick advice coz tomorrow , my brother will buy some IC's ,our town are far from electronics center and the fair are almost the same as the price of single IC and this is the right time to buy PIC microcontroller.
here are the reason why I need your help.
1. our country are limited to electronics component especially on microcontrolller, if is available it bit to high price.(can't afford )
2. Recently I bought Pic16c57c, my mistake , I don't know that was obsolete
and not supported with programmer. but still want to use it .
thanks
I read pic16f628 datasheet, I think it is the best than the other pic, before I post. Now you advice me to pick pic16f628 then it will be my choice .
If you can afford it, you might want to pick up a 16F877 as well because it has more IO pins for larger projects and an ADC. The 18F242 is also a good choice as it also has an ADC and MicroChip supports it with a free C compiler if you don't want to use assembly. Nothing wrong with the 16F628 either. It all depends on what you want to build.
I know 8086 assembly language not C, soon I will study it, You mentioned assembly , what's the differences between 8086/8088 assembly and PIC assembly ?
hi Penoy_balut,
I been looking for you,since I see your 3310 cellphone sending message to Led array.
I saw there site, it's bit higher price than alexan product. did you order on RS components ?. who paid for the delivery ?
I definitely suggest that Jumides may preserve the OTP chip he bought for a future need after gaining adequate experience. it could be used in a project like a test equipmet or clock later. If the chip is tried to be used now, I fear he may end up losing it in a wong or irrelevent programming and then becomes a museam piece. Sorry, I am not trying to scare the O P.
It is preferable to use a flash versions and with nominal precautions, at least it wont be spoiled and will be useful for many experiments.
Probably worth nothing even then, I struggled giving 200+ away a couple of year back - not quite sure of the exact model, but they were something similar, brand new in tubes.
I know 8086 assembly language not C, soon I will study it, You mentioned assembly , what's the differences between 8086/8088 assembly and PIC assembly ?
Well the 8086 has a von Neumann architecture where as the PIC has a Harvard architecture. The 8086 has more instruction opcodes than the 16F PIC's 35. The 16F PIC encodes all it's instructions in one word where as the 8086 can have varying length instruction words. I guess the only similar thing would be the 8086's segmented architecture and the PIC's bank switching. Both are annoying.
They are great little chips and once you get used to the RISC instruction set, you'll really enjoy using them.