Introduction to microcontrollers

Introduction to PIC Microcontrollers Introduction PIC Microcontrollers have been the very first microcontrollers I worked with. I started with the venerable 16F84 and I have worked with a lot of other PIC devices since then. The aim here like my other posts is to give an idea of the implication of working with such devices. So basically what is a PIC Microcontroller, well its another microcontroller available on the market made by Microchip. PIC Microcontrollers are available in a wide variety of offerings namely 8bit, 16 bit or also called DSPIC and 32 bit. Don't get scared here on the number of bits they are actually the size of instruction that the microcontrollers can process. 8bit microcontrollers are out there and performing very complicated tasks. Microchip enhances all their portfolio offerings regularly to make sure their microcontrollers keep up to the job. From a hobbyist point of view there seems to be some models which are very popular mainly the through hole p...

Introduction to Microcontrollers The purpose of this blog post is to give readers an overview of working with Microcontrollers and successfully implementing them in projects. There are numerous information on Microcontrollers available out there but very few give a big picture of the implication of building a project around them from beginning to end for people who have never used them before. What are Microcontrollers? This is the first questions that came to my mind when I first started to get involved with Microcontrollers, what is a Microcontroller actually? In simple terms a Microcontroller is an electronic device which is used to provide control signals to one or more targets devices. The control signals can be used to do simple task such as switch on a led, a relay or it can be a more complicated form of control signal such as a serial protocol signal used to send data through a USB port for instance. In order to send the control signals the Microcontroller ha...