At 05:58 PM 8/10/97 PDT, you wrote:
>It might be worthwhile learning assembler on a more general architecture
>and more interactive environment than is obtainable on PICS.  Learning
>PIC assembler should be trivial, as long as it's your third or better
>architecture.   Trying to learn ASSEMBLER concepts at the same time you
>learn PIC assmebler concepts might be trying.  Certainly trying to write
>your first assembler routine on home-designed HW, where each iteration
>involves erasing and reprogramming some chip is an activity akin to a
>punched-card environment - very unpleasant.  I don't know if the assorted
>simulators available would be enough to help or not...

agree

>Does anyone make a simulator where you can "connect" simmulated high level
>peripherals to your simulated device?  simulated async terminals, simulated
>LCD displays, simulated PWM meters, simulated analog circuitry ala the
>basic stamp analog hacks, simulated multiplexed displays, etc, etc?  Any
>architecture would be interesting...  Anyone have ideas about how to do
>this?

UMPS (Universal Microprocessore Simulator) includes PIC core and pretty
much all the extrnal components you asked for.

us mirror
http://sistudio.com/umps

antti

http://avrbasic.com         -- AVR Basic Compiler
http://sistudio.com/bswfe   -- Basic Stamp Windows Front End