Programming and Customizing the PIC Microcontroller (Tab Electronics)

MASTER PIC MICROCONTROLLER TECHNOLOGY AND ADD POWER TO YOUR NEXT PROJECT!

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Tap into the latest advancements in PIC technology with the fully revamped Third Edition of McGraw-Hill's Programming and Customizing the PIC Microcontroller. Long known as the subject's definitive text, this indispensable volume comes packed with more than 600 illustrations, and provides comprehensive, easy-to-understand coverage of the PIC microcontroller's hardware and software schemes.. .

With 100 experiments, projects, and libraries, you get a firm grasp of PICs, how they work, and the ins-and-outs of their most dynamic applications. Written by renowned technology guru Myke Predko, this updated edition features a streamlined, more accessible format, and delivers:

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• Concentration on the three major PIC families, to help you fully understand the synergy between the Assembly, BASIC, and C programming languages. .
• Coverage of the latest program development tools. .
• A refresher in electronics and programming, as well as reference material, to minimize the searching you will have to do

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WHAT'S INSIDE!

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• Setting up your own PIC microcontroller development lab.
• PIC MCU basics.
• PIC microcontroller interfacing capabilities, software development, and applications.
• Useful tables and data.
• Basic electronics.
• Digital electronics.
• BASIC reference.
• C reference.
• 16-bit numbers.
• Useful circuits and routines that will help you get your applications up and running quickly

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Customer Review: OK but verbose, not for begining

It is a very broad overview of the subject. Kind of like seeing what the forest looks like, not the trees. I found it useful to get a good overview of the subject. I will now look for a book to help be actually build something. Unless you have experience with assembly code, this book is difficult. Not a good primer even for experienced engineers like me. To end on a positive note. It does give a great deal of information on many areas and is a decent reference.

Customer Review: 100 pages into the book and...

I'm 100 pages into the book and am being annoyed more and more.



The author really seems to know his stuff, but he seems to forget that alot of people reading this book are not up to par with his knowledge.

The beginning of this book was fun, because he described many things in layman's terms. When the book starts to give examples in assembly, it's no longer laymen. I had to go online and learn PIC Assembly, then when I went back to the book, I understood what he was trying to explain, but even now having knowledge of PIC Assembly, it was still very difficult to follow. He would mix assembly instructions in with pseudo-code and didn't show how his constants were defined and which registers and their bits were used for what. It was very confusing. Then to top it off, he just jumped from not explaining the specific registers and the uses of their bits to implementing interrupts, which is an even more involved subjet.



Although I have alot of respect for Myke Predko's knowledge in this area, I have to say that his writing is not easy to follow and I saddingly would have to say that this book is more for people with a pretty deep experience in programming MCUs and building electronic circuits.


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