#709 Easy Pic’N

Book notes: Easy Pic’N: A Beginners Guide to Using Pic16/17 Microcontrollers from Square 1, by David Benson. First published December 31, 1996.

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Contents

• PIC PRODUCT OVERVIEW
• PIC16F84
  • Pins and Functions
  • Package
  • Clock Oscillator
  • Configuration bits
  • Reset
  • Ports
  • Special Features
    • Watchdog Timer
    • Power-up Timer
    • Sleep Mode
  • PIC16 Architecture
    • Program Memory
    • Weird Hex Notation
    • File Registers
    • Working Register (W)
    • Option Register
    • Stack
    • Reset Vector
    • Interrupt Vector
  • Option Register
  • Program Counter
  • Status Register
• CIRCUIT FOR EXPERIMENTS
  • ‘84 On A Board
• CHOOSING DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
  • MPLAB/Windows vs. MPASM/MS-DOS
  • Choosing A Device Programmer
• USING AN ASSEMBLER
  • Source Code For The Assembler
    • Semicolon (;)
    • Tabs
  • Style
  • Headers
  • Labels
  • Equates Literals
  • Origin
  • End
  • Program Format
  • Files Used By Assembler
  • Files Created By Assembler
  • Preventing Some Gotchas
• USING THE MS-DOS BASED MPASM ASSEMBLER
  • How To Assemble A Program
• MPLAB OVERVIEW - GETTING STARTED
  • Using MPLAB - Getting Started
    • Toolbars
    • Select Development Mode And Device Type
    • Project
    • Text Editor
    • Edit Project
    • Assembler
  • More MPLAB Operations
• PROGRAMMING A DEVICE
• WRITING PROGRAMS
  • Programming Concepts
  • Instruction Set
  • Weird Move Instruction
  • Instruction Format For The Assembler
    • Byte-Oriented Instructions Bit-Oriented Instructions
    • Literal Instructions
    • Control Instructions (CALL and GOTO)
    • Destination Designator (d)
  • Hexadecimal Numbers vs. MPASM Assembler Binary And Decimal Numbers vs. MPASM Assembler
  • ASCII Characters vs. MPASM
    • Assembler
    • Addressing Modes
    • Immediate addressing
    • Direct Addressing
    • Indirect Addressing Relative Addressing
    • Use Of The RETLW Instruction For Accessing Tables of Data Via Relative Addressing
  • Using The Ports
    • Data Direction
    • Port Read/Write
  • Flags
  • Simple Data Transfers
  • Loop - Endless
  • Loop With a Counter
  • Loop Until Comparisons
  • Bit Manipulation Using Bit Manipulation Instructions
  • Bit Manipulation
  • Using Logic Instructions
  • Using Bit Manipulation
  • Sequencing Subroutines
  • Time Delay Loop
  • Lookup Tables
• INTERRUPTS
  • Interrupt Control Register
  • Interrupt Sources
    • External
    • Timer/Counter
    • Port B Interrupt On Change - Bits 7,6,5,4
  • Global Interrupt Enable Flag
  • Saving Status During An Interrupt (Context Saving)
  • Where To Put The Interrupt Service Routine
  • Interrupt Latency
  • Multiple Interrupt Sources
  • Example - External Interrupt
• TIMING AND COUNTING
  • Digital Output Waveforms
  • Timing And Counting Using The PIC16F84’s TMR On-Board Timer/Counter
    • Prescaler
    • Changing Prescaler Assignment
    • Using The Timer/Counter
    • Timer/Counter Experiments
      • Digital Output Using TMRO - Internal Clock Single Time Interval - Internal Clock Single Time Interval - External Clock
      • Free Running Mode - Internal Clock Free Running Mode - External Clock
      • Counting Events (Pulses)
• PIC16C54
  • Pins And Functions
  • Packages
  • Clock Oscillator
  • Configuration bits
  • Ports
  • Architecture
    • Program Memory File Registers
    • Stack
    • Reset
    • Vector
    • Program Counter
    • Option Register
    • Status Register
  • No Timer/Counter Overflow Interrupt/Flag Output
  • Fewer Instructions
  • PIC16C54 Programming Example
  • Timing And Counting
  • Timer/Counter Description
  • Using The Timer/Counter Timer/Counter Experiment
• MENDING OUR WAYS
  • Sink vs. Source
  • File Register Bank Switching
  • Bank Switching Demo
  • Interrupts And Bank Switching
  • Program Memory Paging
  • Include Files
• 1/O CONVERSION
  • Input Conversion
  • Output Conversion
• MORE PIC’n BOOKS
• APPENDICES
  • Appendix A - Sources
  • Appendix B - Hexadecimal Numbers
  • Appendix C - Program Listings vs. Page Number