C Compiler For PIC Microcontrollers

The C for PICmicro? microcontrollers CD ROM is designed for students and professionals who need to learn how to program embedded microcontrollers in C. The CD contains a course as well as all the software tools needed to create Hex code for a wide range of PICmicro devices - including a full C compiler for a wide range of PICmicro devices. Although the course focuses on the use of the PICmicro microcontrollers this CD ROM will provide a good grounding in C programming for any microcontroller. Complete course in C as well as C programming for PICmicro microcontrollers Highly interactive course Virtual C PICmicro improves understanding Includes a C compiler for a wide range of PICmicro devices Includes full Integrated Development Environment Includes MPLAB software Compatible with most PICmicro programmers

C Video Tutorial (Windows WMV)

The contents of the course on the CD ROM are as follows:

Introduction
About the course, Navigation, What is a PICmicro?, the Virtual C PICmicro, MPLAB, C2C IDE

Programming
Conventional programs, Embedded programs, High and low level, Low level PICmicro, Getting programs into a compiler, writing our programs.

Variables
Introduction, Types, Floating point, Characters, Integers, Choosing variables, Identifiers, Declare Multiple declarations, Initialization, Names, Assigning statements, Expressions, Operators and Operands, Constant operands, Operators and divide, Working on bits, Shifting bits, Shortcut operaUnary operators, Casting Exercises

Conditional Statements
Introduction, Logical operators, Equality, Using else, Cunning conditions, Complicated condition, Unary operators in conditions, Exercises.

Statements and Blocks
Introduction, Blocks in Blocks, Global and local variables, Local variable scope, Global variablesGlobal and local in C2C, Exercises.

Looping the loop
Introduction, While loop, Counting with the while loop, The for loop, Breaking out of loops, Continuing loops, Exercises.

Functions Introduction, When to use a function, Functions which return values, Functions which accept parameters, Functions which return values, More than one parameter, Exercises.

Arrays
Introduction, The need for arrays, Declaring an array, elements in an array, Sorting array elements the next dimension, Exercises.

Switches
Introduction, The switch condition, Switches and breaks, Exercises.

Pointers
Introduction, Arrays and pointers, Declaring a pointer, Using a pointer, Comparing a pointer, Nullpointers, Functions and pointers, Finding out the size, Strings, Exercises.

Structures
Introduction, Creating structures, How structures work, Pointers in structures, Structures in structures, Exercises.

The pre-processor
Introduction, The #include directive, magic numbers and #define, Conditional compilation, Exercises.

Software engineering in C
Introduction, Deciding on specification, Deciding how to test, creating the functions, Using the functions, Making a project, External data, And finally?

PICmicro reference
Introduction, Bits and bytes, Hex and decimal, Ready reckoner, Exercises, The PIC microcontrollPICmicro range, Architecture, Programming the PICmicro, The working register, File registers, Selection, Special function registers, PORTA and PORTB, TRISA and TRISB, Interrupts, Timer, Watchdog, Sleep, EEPROM memory, Development board, Exercises.

Compiling and running programs
Introduction, Compiling your program, assembling your program, downloading your program, C2functions, C2C project files.

Labs
Lab 1 - Flashing lights, Lab 2 - Switches and torches, Lab 3Sound software, Lab 4 - LEDs and clocks, Lab 5 - LCDs and libraries, Lab 6 - Mystic LCD, Lab 7 - PICing a lock, Lab 8 - reaction timer, Lab 9 - Inspecting your morse. Resource Lab index, Code toolbox, LCD reference, PIC16F84 datasheet.

This product is shipped with the C2C C compiler. The specification of this is as follows:

Supported features:

• 8-bit and 16-bit variables
• Pointers
• Built in variables
• Arrays
• Arithmetic expressions
• Functions and built in functions
• Interrupts
• Standard C commands
• Libraries and include files supported
• Multiple data types

Built in functions:
clear_wdt, enable_interrupt, disable_interrupt, set_mode, set_option, set_tris_a, set_tris_b, set_tris_c, output_port_a, output_port_b, output_port_c, output_high_port_a, output_high_port_b, output_high_poutput_low_port_a, output_low_port_b, output_low_port_c, input_port_a, input_port_b, input_port_c,input_pin_port_a, input_pin_port_b, input_pin_port_c, sleep, nop, set_bit, clear_bit, putchar, getchar, delay_s, delay_ms, delay_us, char_to_bcd, bcd_to_char

Standard C commands:
? if, else, while, for, return, break, continue, extern, switch, case, default;
? goto and labels;
? char, short, int, long, void;
? ~, ++, --, +, -, <, <=, >, >=, ==, !=, =, !, &, |, ^, &=, |=, ^=, &&, ||, *, /, %, <<, >>, <<=, >>=;
? one-dimensional arrays;
? const char pointers;
? const variables and arrays;
? functions with no/one/many parameters and void/char return type;
? built-in assembler;
? #include
? #define, #undef
? #ifdef, #ifndef, #else, #endif

Data types
Decimal, Octal, Hexadecimal, Binary, ASCII

The following devices are supported:
PIC12C508, PIC12C508A, PIC12C509, PIC12C509A, PIC12CR509A, PIC12CE518, PIC12CE519, PIC12C671, PIC12C672, PIC12CE673, PIC12CE674, PIC16C52, PIC16C54, PIC16CR54, PIC16C55PIC16C56, PIC16CR56, PIC16C57, PIC16CR57, PIC16C58, PIC16CR58, PIC16C61, PIC16C62, PIC16C62A, PIC16C62B, PIC16CR62, PIC16C63, PIC16C63A, PIC16CR63, PIC16C64, PIC16C64APIC16CR64, PIC16C65, PIC16C65A, PIC16C65B, PIC16CR65, PIC16C66, PIC16C67, PIC16C71, PIC16C72, PIC16C72A, PIC16CR72, PIC16C73, PIC16C73A, PIC16C73B, PIC16C74, PIC16C74A,PIC16C74B, PIC16C76, PIC16C77, PIC16F83, PIC16CR83, PIC16C84, PIC16F84, PIC16F84A, PIC16CR84, PIC16C505, PIC16C620, PIC16C620A, PIC16CR620A, PIC16C621, PIC16C621A, PIC16C622, PIC16C622A, PIC16CE623, PIC16CE624, PIC16CE625, PIC16F627, PIC16F628, PIC16C641, PIC16C642, PIC16C661, PIC16C662, PIC16C710, PIC16C711, PIC16C712, PIC16C715PIC16C716, PIC16C717, PIC16C770, PIC16C771, PIC16C773, PIC16C774, PIC16F870, PIC16F871PIC16F872, PIC16F873, PIC16F874, PIC16F876, PIC16F877, PIC16C923, PIC16C924