Dontronics - EASY Microcontrol'n Beginners Guide.

EASY Microcontrol'n Beginners Guide.
(Formerly Easy PIC'n)

Easy Microcontrol'n" © is intended to ease the beginner toward understanding and application of the PIC ® line of microcontrollers from Microchip Technology, Inc. Examples of assembly language programs range from a simple one to turn on LED's to more complex ones for timing and for event-counting. Writing programs is covered in-depth and the use of flow charts, as an aid to visualizing what a program does, is emphasized. The approach is hands-on with many examples, all of which may be demonstrated using a very simple demo board (a project) in the beginning of the book. By David Benson (8-1/2 x 11 format, 179 pages, $29.95USD).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PRODUCT OVERVIEW

PIC16F84

     Pins and Functions
     Package
     Clock Oscillator
     Reset
     Ports
     Special Features
        Watchdog Timer
        Power-up Timer
        Sleep Mode
     PIC Microcontroller Architecture
        Program Memory
        Weird Hex Notation
        File Registers
        Working Register (W)
        Option Register
        Stac
        Reset Vector
        Interrupt Vector
     Option Register
     Program Counter
     Status Register
     Configuration bits

Circuit For Experiments

     Circuit For Experimenting With The PIC16F84
     Circuit Module For Experiments - 18P Board
        (AKA '84 On A Board)

CHOOSING DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

     MPLAB
     Choosing A Device Programmer
     - PICSTART Plus
     - 3rd Party Programmer

USING AN ASSEMBLER

     Source Code For The Assembler
        Semicolon (;)
        Tabs
     Style
     Headers
     Labels
     Equates
     Literals
     Origin
     End
     Program Format
     Files Used By Assembler
     Files Created By Assembler
     Preventing Some Gotchas
     Configuration Bits

MPLAB OVERVIEW - GETTING STARTED

     Using MPLAB - Getting Started
        Toolbars
        Select Development Mode And Device Type
        Project
        Text Editor
        Edit Project
        Assembler
     More MPLAB Operations

PROGRAMMING A DEVICE

WRITING PROGRAMS

     Programming Concepts
     Instruction Set
     Weird Move Instruction
     Instruction Format For The Assembler
        Byte-Oriented Instructions
        Bit-Oriented Instructions
        Literal Instructions
        Control Instructions (CALL and GOTO)
        Destination Designator (d)
     Hexadecimal Numbers vs. MPASM Assembler
     Binary And Decimal Numbers vs. MPASM Assembler
     ASCII Characters vs. MPASM Assembler
     Addressing Modes
        Immediate addressing
        Direct Addressing
        Indirect Addressin
        Relative Addressing
        Use Of The RETLW Instruction For Accessing
           Tables of Data Via Relative Addressing
     Using The Ports
        Data Direction
        Port Read/Write
     Flags
     Simple Data Transfers
     Loop - Endless
     Loop With a Counter
     Loop Until
     Comparisons
     Bit Manipulation Using Bit Manipul
        Instructions
     Bit Manipulation Using Logic Instructions
     Using Bit Manipulation
     Sequencing
     Subroutines
     Time Delay Loop
     Lookup Tables
     Programming Style

INTERRUPTS

     Interrupt Control Register
     Interrupt Sources
         External
         Timer/Counter
         Port B Interrupt On Change - Bits 7,6,5,4
     Global Interrupt Enable Flag
     Saving Status During An Interrupt (Context Saving)
     Where To Put The Interrupt Service Routine
     Interrupt Latency
     Multiple Interrupt Sources
     Example - External Interrupt

TIMING AND COUNTING

     Digital Output Waveforms
     Timing And Counting Using The PIC16F84's TMR0
             On-Board Timer/Counter
         Prescaler
         Changing Prescaler Assignment
         Using The Timer/Counter
         Timer/Counter Experiments
             Digital Output Using TMR0 - Internal Clock
             Single Time Interval - Internal Clock
             Single Time Interval - External Clock
             Free Running Mode - Internal Clock
             Free Running Mode - External Clock
             Counting Events (Pulses)

FILE REGISTER BANK SWITCHING

     File Register Bank Switching
     Bank Switching Demo
     Interrupts And Bank Switching

PROGRAM MEMORY PAGING

     14-Bit Core Mid-Range Parts
     Interrupts And Program Memory Paging
     Summary

LOCATING TABLES IN PROGRAM MEMORY

Include Files

PIC16F84 DATA EEPROM MEMORY

     EEADR Register
     EEDATA Register
     EECON1 Register
     EECON2 "Register"
     Read Cycle
     Write Cycle
     Programming The Data EEPROM
     Code Protection