New to pic programming..

[jijudu]

Hi Bloggers,
am someone who just got on to the world of pic controllers. Would u please suggest me any simulators to work on pic microcontrollers.? Thanku.

 

[gam]

I would suggest to get a breadboard, a programmer and start with some simple code.

i haven't found any useful similators for the PIc, for the AVR it is integrated itn he design suite AVR studio and it's very good

 

[c36041254]

Well, I'm somewhat in the same boat, though I have been through the simmulator for PICs (available at : microchip.com, called MPLAB, it's free!), have never progammed actually a PIC, I got 16F628 ( very cheap PIC, should start with this!), and a self made programmer called JDM (see: icprog.com, software also avilable for free!), but, something is wrong with it ( I made some mistake, the disign is very populer!, if intersted see JDM harware help post), any way I hope I'll fix that , now I would suggest you strongly to go for PIC as they are very easy to understand and will give you some basic knowledge about microcontroller.
Here are some usefull link : (first try the first one)


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http://www.winpicprog.co.uk/pic_tutorial1.htm
Hpe will be useful

 

[s_brune]

https://www.oshonsoft.com/downloads.html has simulators for the following PIC micros

PIC Simulator IDE

PIC18 Simulator IDE

PIC10F Simulator IDE

 

[pian]

Hi Jijudu,

I'm suggesting you to have the hardware first then explore the PIC while using the PIC and the compiler. I also newbee to PIC, but, I manage to program a small robot in just a few days, to follow a line, avoid obstacle, and also control the speed motors using pwm method. My conclusion is, to learn PIC hands-on, is more understandable that learn virtually. All the setup are not more than 20 - 30 usd. Why don't save some money for big future ideas.

'Learn till u die'.
Pian.

 

[dirana42]

hi ,

i searched the web for the same and found out that best one was an mplab 5.0 v for the start. but that one was not avilable on any website and i lost it while correcting my hdd failure.

but i did manage to get a project in good shape just with help of newer

mplab. it took some time to get used to it as they make lot of changes ..

since you are starting fresh you will find it easy.

one site i recommend to all...... at least a fast visit .. it is

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it will help any one in most beneficial way...

good luck ... use ready programer rather than building one .. as you may get lost on the way

dirana42

 

[Sayem Ahmed]

If you experienced one with digital electronics & know C++ or assembly language then it is not a so critical for you to start PIC programing.

I also a new one in PIC programing. I choose MPLAB.

For PIC programing first you have to select one language.

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Criteria that can be taken into account when choosing a language:
1. which languages do you know (but beware that C for a
microcontroller might not exactly be the ANSI-C you are used to on a
desktop system)
2. price of the tool
3. quality of the tool
4. quality of the tool documentation
5. support for the tool (vendor, mailing list, newsgroups)
6. ease of writing (a high level language is definitely easier to write in
than assembler)
7. availability of useful libraries
8. effective use of the microcontrollers resources

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Here a important free book on PIC

https://www.mikroe.com/en/books/picbook/picbook.htm

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The one thing may help you mostly just read! read! read!
Then execute them & also modify them continuously.

Your starting program may be Blink some LED.

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You can start with



Find one this page my reply

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[me_guitarist]

most of the tutorial showing 16Fxxx pic, how about 12Fxxx?