My experience as a newbie to the world of PICs, I am sure, will be of some
benefit to you.

From your question, I guess that you are familiar with BASIC. In that case
you will learn quite a bit about programming PICs with the help of what www.
celestialhorizons.com has to offer. You can download their CH Basic from
their site (some restrictions apply). Unlike the other compilers that I have
seen, this is highly user-friendly. As soon as you enter the commands in
BASIC, the PIC assembly language instructions appear in another window. You
can compile to produce the .asm file, which in turn can be used to produce
the .hex file with MPLab (free download from www.microchip.com). Finally,
using a programmer (hardware) and suitable software, the .hex file can be
burnt into the PIC device. PIC 16F84 is considered ideal for beginners since
it's a low-cost, flash device.

In order to derive the full advantage of PIC devices, you will however have
to learn and program in PIC assembly language, but that might look a bit
complex in the beginning and can be attempted once you gain sufficient
familiarity with PICs.

Other sites that will be of interest to you:
www.myke.com
www.dontronics.com
www.rentron.com

Bala Chandar


-----Original Message-----
From: William [mailto:william@MYWEB.COM.MY]
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 1:25 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Any website provides good tutorial on PIC programming?


Dear All,

Any website provides good tutorial on PIC programming?

I like to know how to write a "if condition" and "count down counter"
in PIC programming.

Like

1)  If PORTA input is 00001111, then do blah, blah, blah, and;
2) Counter = counter - 2 .....

examples

Thanks

Regards,

William

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