Hi Everyone!

Allow me to introduce myself. I am Russ Casey.
(who)? A student of the Dept. Of Computing, Imperial College, London.
(why)? I will be writing a PIC emulator/assembler in Visual Basic as
a final year project. I think you ought to know, I don't actually know
very much about PICs, but I know Bryan Crotaz, who does, and I need
your help. I want to know about any special features you would like
it to do.

So far, I have this in mind:

The emulator will run under windows, and be very nice and usery.
It will support all current microchip PICs, and hopefully it will
be simple to upgrade as new PICs come onto the market.
The I/O pins will have : LED and Waveform Monitors.
Inputs can be defined as logic functions of outputs and input stimuli.

Once a single-chip emulator is working, the system will be expanded to
support multiple interacting PICs, including line delays for simulating
networks.

My strategy is to simulate the operation of a PIC at it's lowest level
(Bryan tells me each PIC assembler instruction is split into four
primitives. The data sheet only shows some of these reductions, but I
believe I will need the full set (Does anyone have this?). I understand
there is a great variety of project work being done by readers of this list,
and I would value any ideas (I need to have a spec ready for this Wednesday!)



Thanks In Advance,


Russ.


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