PIC microcontrollers are fabricated by Microchip Technology. PIC16C84 and PIC16F84 are the two microcontrollers in the PIC16X84 family of microcontrollers. PIC16F84 is the enhanced version of PIC16C84.
PIC16X84 family of microcontrollers possess the following key … Read More
I am creating this project in C language using MPLAB X IDE XC8 compiler. However, you may use any other IDE that works with PIC microcontrollers. In this project, eight LEDs are connected to PORTC of a PIC18F45K22 microcontroller. … Read More
Every microcontroller family has its own set of instructions that are typically carried out in a similar set of operations though using different syntax. This is exhibited in the variation in the internal architecture of various types of microcontrollers. … Read More
In this article, we discuss how to interface the PIC microcontroller to various types of input and output devices. A key point to recall when dealing with PIC is that, each pin in the I/O ports may be configured in … Read More
LCD crystal displays allow a better user interface compared with LED displays as it is much easier to display text messages in LCD displays. They also consume much less power than LED displays. Nonetheless, LED displays have better intensity than … Read More
In this article, we briefly describe how to interface LEDs and electromechanical relays to microcontrollers. Note, a detailed description on how this is done can be found in the official documentation of the microcontroller you are working with. Here, we … Read More
Once the program is written and translated into executable code, the resulting HEX file is loaded to the target microcontroller’s program memory with the aid of a device programmer. The type of device programmer depends on the type microcontroller to … Read More
Software is the term used for the instructions that tells a microprocessor or microcontroller what to do. The collections of instructions that a microprocessor will recognize is its instruction set. The form of the instruction set depends on the … Read More
Development boards are helpful microcontroller learning tools. Simple development boards contain just a microcontroller and the required clock circuitry. More sophisticated development boards contain LEDs, pushbuttons, LCD, serial ports, USB port, power supply circuit, device programming hardware, and so forth.… Read More
PIC microcontroller input-output ports are named PORTA, PORTB, PORTC, etc. depending on the type of microcontroller you are using. Port pins can be in analog or digital mode. In analog mode, ports are input only and the in-built analog-to-digital converter … Read More
