Programming and Customizing the PIC Microcontroller (Tab Electronics)

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

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:

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

WHAT'S INSIDE!

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

Customer Reviews:

Not for Beginners

By Daniel Derrow - February 25, 2000

The first six chapters are on/in the Microchip website/data book. Chapters seven through nine are decated to software and hardward design. The rest are on the emulator, hints and code examples.I bought the book for examples on input/output interfacing and coding. I found one or no input examples and several output examples. Hardware examples were better than coding examples. This project was my first with uController's but I have been programming and designing hardware for several years. After getting helpful straight foreward examples on input/output hardware and software design, the book became more of an asset. This book is not for beginners.

A disorganized mishmosh; a waste of time and effort.

By A Customer - June 17, 1999

After reading the earlier, excellent book in this series on Basic Stamps, I was hoping to find another book of similar quality to help me delve into the world of PICs. I am, to say the least, very disappointed. I'm a senior level software engineer with a good hardware background, but I found this book to be so unclear as to be nearly unreadable. There is little logical progression in building the reader's conceptualizations. Facts are introduced seemingly at random. Irrelevant ideas are gratuitously tossed in, only to be rescinded shortly after. I looked in vain for a chapter that lived up to its title, and felt disappointed with each and every one. There isn't even an appendix listing the processor's instruction set! There's no way I could program a PIC after reading this book, and I'm almost as ignorant about them as before. All in all, a very frustrating experience.

Not a good book for beginners

By A Customer - December 13, 1999

This is definately not a book for beginners. There is a lack of order and some things are repeated a couple times. Some basic concepts aren't explained and without them just about everything else dosen't make much sense. If you still decide to buy it I would recommend downloading the datasheets from Microchip and read those before you start the book; and also finding a short description of the commands. One good thing is that he will answer your emails and answer your questions

AVAILABILITY
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eCampus	Paperback	~~$49.33~~ discount!