pic tutorial for newbee

hi,

i am new to pic programing and is clueless about pic... does anybody know or can tell me how to step-by-step program a pic1 16f84? i mean, i have already written the program, the problem is, how to burn the program to the IC.

does anybody have a good tutorial site for newbies?

thanks,
anun

I suspect there are several PIC tutorials but may I suggest this one?

https://amqrp.org/elmer160/index.html

It pretty much starts you at the beginning, including how-to info' on using MPLAB...

Good luck... Regards, Mike

Using a PIC involves three steps:

1. Write the software text file(.asm) which contains what you want the PIC to do, which I believe you have already done.

2. Assemble the .asm into a HEX text file using an assembler. This file contains information in step 1 that you must send to the internal of PIC to let it know what to do upon reset. Some PICs can only accept these instructions once but luckily your 16F84 has erasable program memory which means you can change those instructions as you move along to different projects.

3. How would you carry out step 2:

3a. You'll need a hardware device in between computer and PIC which accept data from the computer and physically sending it into the PIC. This is known as a PIC programmer. There are different designs with different advantage and disadvantages.

3b. You'll also need a software program(known as Programming software) running on your computer to read the HEX data file on your harddisk and send it to a port (either USB, serial or parallel) where the programmer(3a) is connected. There are many free and excellent choices like IC-Prog, WinPicPro, WinPic etc......

The following website a good place for tutorial

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Enjoy your new adventure.

Hi,

Try those sites :

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http://www.hobby-elec.org/e_menu.htm
http://www.rentron.com/

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