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Hi all,

Any one can tell me which is the easiest PIC compiler to start the PIC programming (for beginners)

Thanks

Hi

I think the most popular answer will be CCS compiler.

But I like Hi tech PIC.

Wait and see what others have to say!

all the best

picstudent

For real beginners my suggestion would be following:
PIC Basic Pro
and
MiKroBasic
compilers

but i want to use C language

Hello all.
Microchip C18 is also very powerful.
Probably has the best ANSI compatibility and has a free/student version which all features enabled, no program code size limitation. Only some of the compiler optimizations disabled.
It integrates very well with MPLAB.
Just download it and try, it is free.

Download here: **broken link removed**

Another free and unlimited compiler is SDCC.
Some people have been working to port it to the PIC family. It seems some people are suceeding. Look at the following links:

http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
http://mdubuc.freeshell.org/Sdcc/
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S.

What ever language you use you will stuck in somewhere for some reason wich cannot be solved by all this languages or it will take more memory than you have. There, assembly will help you!!. and with out understanding what's happening inside MCU, How one can satisfy with his program? If you like to understand what's happening inside MCU, you should understand assembly!!!!Be an expert in assembly and then go for high level languages. That's my advice.

Just some remarks about assembly programing:

Important drawbacks of assembler coding:
1-The code will be processor dependent. Very difficult to port the code to other microprocessor, for example, from another company or a new family from the same company

2-Very difficult to reuse the routines you have already designed. A good example is the old very minimal TCP/IP stack that was developed for PIC16F84 in assembler that none could bring to other processor of the pic family.

3-Very difficult to bring codes from other platforms like the PC to your processor.

The compilers we have today are not very bad. They will certainly generate codes that will need a bit more memory than an equivalent assembler code but the development/debuging in high level language will be much faster.

The high level language will help you to build much more complex applications in shorter time than it would be possible in assembler.

As an example, I have designed a multitasking operating system that has a resident interpreter that can run quite complex high level interpreted programs. I made it in C for the PIC18F, and I can say that in assembler it would be much harder to design such a code.
I have also now the advantage of being able to port my code to any other processor (of course replacing the small processor dependent code that is needed to acceess the hardware......)

S.

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