Programming 16-bit Microcontrollers in C: Learning to Fly the PIC24, A Volume in the Embedded Technology Series

. A Microchip insider tells all on the newest, most powerful PICs ever!

. FREE CD-ROM includes source code in C, the Microchip C30 compiler, and MPLAB SIM software

. Includes handy checklists to help readers perform the most common programming and debugging tasks

The new 16-bit PIC24 chip provides embedded programmers with more speed, more memory, and more peripherals than ever before, creating the potential for more powerful cutting-edge PIC designs. This book teaches readers everything they need to know about these chips: how to program them, how to test them, and how to debug them, in order to take full advantage of the capabilities of the new PIC24 microcontroller architecture.

Author Lucio Di Jasio, a PIC expert at Microchip, offers unique insight into this revolutionary technology, guiding the reader step-by-step from 16-bit architecture basics, through even the most sophisticated programming scenarios. This book's common-sense, practical, hands-on approach begins simply and builds up to more challenging exercises, using proven C programming techniques. Experienced PIC users and newcomers to the field alike will benefit from the text's many thorough examples, which demonstrate how to nimbly side-step common obstacles, solve real-world design problems efficiently, and optimize code for all the new PIC24 features.

You will learn about:
. basic timing and I/O operations,
. multitasking using the PIC24 interrupts,
. all the new hardware peripherals
. how to control LCD displays,
. generating audio and video signals,
. accessing mass-storage media,
. how to share files on a mass-storage device with a PC,
. experimenting with the Explorer 16 demo board, debugging methods with MPLAB-SIM and ICD2 tools, and more!

A Microchip insider tells all on the newest, most powerful PICs ever!

Condenses typical introductory "fluff" focusing instead on examples and exercises that show how to solve common, real-world design problems quickly

Includes handy checklists to help readers perform the most common programming and debugging tasks

FREE CD-ROM includes source code in C, the Microchip C30 compiler, and MPLAB SIM software, so that readers gain practical, hands-on programming experience

Check out the author's Web site at http://www.flyingpic24.com for FREE downloads, FAQs, and updates

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"No stone is left unturned. The book hits flash memory, communications, LCD support, and analog-to-digital converter support...Unless you are a C30 and PIC24 wiz already, pick up this book before beginning work with one." William Wong, Electronic Design.

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Lucio Di Jasio is now Sales Manager in Europe for Microchip Inc. He was previously Application Segments Manager at Microchip in Chandler AZ. He has been intimately involved in the development of Microchip PIC products for over 10 years and is a well known writer and expert on the use of PIC products both via his Newnes books and his work at events such as the Microchip Masters.

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Introduction
Chapter 1 Hello Embedded World
Chapter 2 A Loop in the Pattern
Chapter 3 More Pattern Work, More Loops
Chapter 4 Numb3rs
Chapter 5 Interrupts
Chapter 6 Taking a Look Under the Hood
Chapter 7 After the First "Solo" Flight
Chapter 8 Asynchronous Communication
Chapter 9 Glass = Bliss
Chapter 10 It's an Analog World
Chapter 11 Cross-Country Flying
Chapter 12 The Dark Screen
Chapter 13 Mass Storage
Chapter 14 File I/O
Chapter 15 Volare

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