At 04.52 1995-12-30 -0500, Neil Gandler wrote:

>I am searching for a good book on programming with the PIC. I have
>looked through the Microchip manual and embedded controller handbook.
>Code examples are somewhat hard to follow. I have an idea of what
>the commands are but thats about it. I want to start programming
>this thing. I finally have my software flowchart completed. It is
>figuring out the code that is becoming a huge obstacle. I
>would appreciate any info or advice.

I would say that the instruction set is so small in the low-range series,
you can easily remember all instructions after a while.

How long is "a while"? It depends on how often you make programs and how
often you use every specific instruction.

I started reading the general specifications for every uC in the data book
and came to the conclusion that it was too little program memory (I also
write c/c++ programs under unix/dos and whatever you do, the executable will
soon reach 100kb or even 1Mb). Anyway, I chose the '54 because I could
always move up to the '84 or '58 in case of memory overflow. Then I read
about all special registers and later, all instructions to get a clue what
they were doing. It's easier than you might think to use these instructions.


-- Conny