What is the best book for learning PIC and where to get it?

newbie to pic

i am new to pic
i want to know what is the best book for learning pic and where can iget this book from the internet
i want also a pic chip number since there are a lot of pic chips available in the market

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Salam.

Which pogramming language do you intend to use?

Bye.

newbie to pic

i intend to use both assembly and c

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The 2 most common PIC used by beginner are the PIC16F877A and PIC16F84A.

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84A is no longer in production. one of the most commenly used nowadays is PIC16F628a to subs 84a. if not mistaken, F88 another version which fancied.
if u wanna use asm, u can start with MPLAB. and if u want to start with C, then u can try MikroC from mikroelektronika. u can even get a html guide for PIC there.
A good place to start. personally, i'm learning PicBasic Pro from microengineering. Good luck there.
If u do some searching here, i guess theres alot of info in eda that u can learn (for beginners) without havin to get a book. although book would help u even more. happy learning n happy searching.

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Hello,

A good book on embedded design in general is "Embedded C" by Michael J pont. Another book is "PIC Microcontroller project book" and "Mike Predko guide to the PIC"
I think you can find all these books in the upload/dowload section on this forum.

For PIC Chip numbers, I started with the 16F84 but it is replaced by the 16F628 which has some nice enhancements.

For C Compilers I suggest High Tech C Compiler integrated with MPLAB, check their website for the demo ( Ithink it compiles for the 16F628 for free). Programming in C saves a lot of time and gets your project running much quicker, of course the compromise is you get a bigger code size and maybe slower than what you can get using assembler.

The important thing to do now is to buy or make yourself a PIC programmer a lot of designs are available on the web (JDM programmer is a simple and easy one). Have the PIC datasheet infront of you, Get some PIC chips and get it starting with some simple routines like flashing a led, then step it up by reading some inputs (switches) and displaying the outputs on LED. The rest you will figure out yourself as you go.

Gam

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Hi again,

Try this link:

https://www.ccsinfo.com/content.php?page=books

Their C compiler is quite good.

Bye.

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hxxp://www.phanderson.com/icd/tutorial.html
PIC16F87X_tutorial_sample of phanderson
using CCS

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I think 16F88 is better choice than 16F628A or you can try 16F877A for more I/O. If you're using C you look at examples from www.microchipc.com


photonix

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Pls try this link :
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Very good basic PIC tutorial to get grip on PIC assembly programming.

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gam said:

Hello,

A good book on embedded design in general is "Embedded C" by Michael J pont. Another book is "PIC Microcontroller project book" and "Mike Predko guide to the PIC"
I think you can find all these books in the upload/dowload section on this forum.

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Where could I find that section with downloads? Thanks

Read Muhammad Ali Mazidi - PIC microcontrollers; one of best. C and assembly both covered for 16F series.

Thanks

Yes,Mazidi's book is the best one and it covers C and Assembly both for 18F series not 16F series.

Ya, It's correct. It's for 18F series. Thank you.

Hi
I think this book is useful