Starting Electronics: Microcontroller Basics with PIC

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction and Motivation

  • Instead of an introduction – on buying an NE555

  • Why PIC? Why assembler?

  • What do we need?

  • Installing MPLAB on Windows

• Chapter 2: Executing Assembly in Sequence

  • Getting closer to the PIC

  • Building a testing rig

  • An introduction to Assembly

  • Understanding start-up

  • Dynamic hardware configuration

  • What happens in the background?

  • How outputs are configured

  • Conclusion

• Chapter 3: Program Sequence Control

  • Jump Operators and Pipelining

  • Slow down program execution with NOP

  • Aside: Comments

  • Declaration of variables

  • Conditional jump operations

  • Troubleshooting

  • Optimizing the program

  • Using Subroutines

  • The stack and its pitfalls

  • What happens next?

• Chapter 4: PIC Arithmetic Operations

  • Understanding binary

  • The traps of adding things

  • Comparing numerical values

  • Two's complement

  • Logic operations

  • Shift!

• Chapter 5: Interrupts and Sleep Modes

  • Understanding interrupt logic

  • Unsharp without interrupts

  • Improving the reaction time

  • Let's save power

  • Monitoring with WDT

  • Outlook: timers allsorts

• Chapter 6: Indirect Addressing

  • Discrete and continuous

  • Configure the DAC

  • On lookup tables

  • Tables from data memory

  • On disassembly and constants

  • Return to table access

  • Tables from RAM

  • Troubleshooting with Assembler

  • Jumping across banks

  • Bottom line

• Chapter 7: Getting Started With C

  • The C workflow

  • Install MCC

  • Start MCC

  • Flashing _a_ LED with MCC

  • Analyze code structure

  • Flashing _a_ LED

  • Analyzing compiler output

  • Bottom line

• Chapter 8: Interrupts and Timers à la C

  • Interrupt handling with C

  • Provision of interrupt logic

  • Merging changes (against MCC-generated code)

• Chapter 9: Hardware Accelerated Buses: I2C, SPI and more

  • SPI – if speed is needed

  • Programming SPI

  • I2C - a bus for many

  • I2C, reloaded

  • Evaluate serial data

  • Bit banging: Wiegand Protocol

  • Bit banging: state machine

  • Bit banging: coding

  • Bottom line

• Chapter 10: Storing Data During Power-off

  • Writing to EEPROM

  • A matter of speed

  • Addressing games

  • HEF, or abuse the program memory

  • Aside: HEF, reloaded

  • The bottom lines

• Appendix A: Search Ranking

• Appendix B: Fast Spectral Components

  • On waves and parts

  • Deeper analysis!

  • What's in it for me?

Index

• W

  • Watchdog timer

  • WDTE

  • Wiegand Protocol

  • working register

  • WriteBlock

  • WriteWord

• X

  • XOR

  • XORLW

  • XORWF