Design with PIC Microcontrollers

By John B. Peatman

Book Overview

Focusing on Microchip Technology's "PIC" microcontroller chips capacity to integrate features of a digital design, this book introduces program writing with a series of code templates that helps readers learn by doing rather that start code writing from scratch. Using detailed block diagrams to illustrate registers, control bits, and status bits associated with assorted functions, the book also provides examples to illustrate points and to demonstrate how assorted issues can be handled. It provides a systematic path into the PIC microcontrollers by showing its organization and ways to deal with idiosyncrasies. Provides alternative methods for addressing interrupt timing constraints to meet the needs of all interrupt sources. Presents a systematic treatment of slowly changing events, including keyswitches that have been debounced and scanned with a state machine implementation. Discusses a number of important topics, including the PIC's flexible analog-to-digital conversion facility; the master-slave interconnection of PICs; low-power operation alternatives; and comparisons of PIC family members for design requirement analysis. An essential reference book on the PIC microcontroller for every professional engineer or designer. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137592590
• ISBN13: 9780137592593
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Embedded Systems

So Far I have been using it alot to figure out how to program the assembly for a pic, very useful

An excellent introduction, text, and reference

I recommend this book without qualification! After a disappointing encounter with the popular Predko book, I bought John Peatman's book sight unseen. I was not disappointed. This book has strong content, writing, and organization. It supplies all the information I needed to get started and it moves smoothly to advanced programming and applications. The only surprise, after Predko's book, was that Peatman focuses on...

OUTSTANDING!

I learned more in the first 30 pages of this book than in weeks of looking at data sheets and ap-notes.This book covers EVERYTHING you ever wanted to know about high-end (PIC16C6x and PIC16C7x) PIC microcontrollers. Most of the information applies equally to the popular PIC16F84.If you're going to use PIC microcontrollers, get this book!

Mr. Peatman has done an excellent job explaining the "PIC".

This was a very well written book. He has chapters on I2C, LCD interfacing, UARTs and the A/D. In my opinion this is well worth the price for the education received.

Concise, readable design guide suitable for beginners.

Unlike many of the current micro-controller texts currently available which extoll the history of the technology and earlier (re. out of date information), this text is refreshingly to the point. It focuses on current PIC controllers (could use an addendum for newest additions) and current interface components such as rotary encoders and LCD displays suitable for low cost design. Additionally, instead of the classical approach...