Do I hear a vote for the 16F877?????
Excepting the MIDI, I'm just about postive you can
do all of that stuff.  With the built in ADC, FLASH
and extra I/O I know I could probably get his job
done.  Maybe better (quicker) in ASM.  But with
the ICD and it's prototype board (US $159 total,)
it would get him down the road fast.
Walt

-----Original Message-----
From: Gianni Freiles [mailto:heisenb@HOTMAIL.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 3:36 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: TOO DIFFICULT TO DECIDE: please help


Hello to everybody.
I'm a newcomer to PIC programming and I'm seeking for advice.
I've been programming embedded systems in medical products under 6502,
Z80,
68000, 68332 and just recently I'm getting back to it.
I'm somewhat confused after some days of searching through the web for a
micro that would fit my application, Tickit, PIC, TIGER and so on.

Let me try to explain what I need and see if any of you guys can help.

My application requires the following:

- 8 channel serial ADC 8-10 bits (MAX186, MAX192 ??) with about 2 KHz
sampling rate
- 12-16 bit general I/O
- RS232 serial communication
- LCD 2 x 24 characters (serial, I2C, 8 bit bus ???)
- Possibility of reprogramming the software without extracting any chip
(RS232, other serial communication ??)
- MIDI communication (31.25 K, is that possible on PICs ?)
- PIC CPU (which model??)
- Battery operated

Development system:
- C compiler (CCS ??)
Do I need a startup kit or you advice to start from scratch with a
prototyping board? Any self made project?
I would hate to burn software with a programmer before trying software
changes.

I was convinced on PICs mainly because of the quality of the PICLIST web
site. Thanks to all of you for sharing your work.

Gianni



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