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Learning microcontroller programing

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I want to learn to write software to microcontrolers. I learn C and I am familier with the PIC family. I want to know what is the best way to begin to write software and also to program a real board.
Is there a recommended books for that , or a spicial site where I can order evaluation board for that?
 

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PICmicro MCU C: An Introduction to Programming The Microchip PIC in CCS C (<- eBook)

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Don't waste your money in Commercial PIC boards... it may be easily made by yourself due to there are so few additional components.

Start programming very simple tasks (I think that turning some leds sequentially on is a sort of "hello world" for microcontrollers programming), so go on increasing the task difficulty.

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Hai
Buying a commercial board is a good option if you want things speeded up.A good demo board( you can find a lot of them on net) with easy download features will help you study things in a faster way.off course you can make your own board but the time wasted in that will be huge when you are starting up.but you can do your own boards easily once you have worked and is femilier with a commercial board.purchasing study kits or development tools wont be a waste if you want fast results.Example programs provided with that suitable for the board will give you a start up very easily.'Searching' time could be saved.
Start with assembly and move on to C inorder to understand "what is happening inside"!
Picstudent
 

I agree with Picstudent,start off with assembly,once you have grasped the concept you can move on.
I suggest you visit this site. www.winpicprog.co.uk
Nigel has loads of tutorials that you can work through and at the same time build your own dev boards as you work through the tutorials which are
pic 16F628 specific.

Good Luck
 

hi,
There is one link i have found very good.
www.technocrafts.com
The only PIC Trainer board with lots of features and minimul cost..

I agree that you and people like you should start from getting such a Trainer board whcih includes lots of sample experiments and manuals.
C is a good choice to start but basic is the one whcih is most easy and fast to learn among all microcontroller programming languages..

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Try this site
it has free books and evaloation boards **broken link removed**
 

ISIS PROTEUS is a very good simulation tools.
 

I suggest the www.kitsrus.com site. I learned there how to programm and how to make little project's using ucontroller. The projects also include how to calculate some parts for time delays etc.
 

All of compiler/IDE vendors supply tutorial projects.
Learn compiling that projects and inspect the output listing.

Regards.
Igor.
 

hi :
i think it is important is to build your own development board to begin
right ,it is not hard to do, try hitech software ( c compiler) ,it is power softwares
regards
 

do u all know any of the link can learn 8051 microcontroller programming that using C-languages but not Assembly-languages??
:?:
 

What's most common tools in embedded system development.
 

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