Serial PIC'n : PIC Microcontroller Serial Communications

By G.G. Chowdhury

Book Overview

Serial PIC'n details various methods for implementing serial communications between a Microchip PIC microcontroller and an external device. Asynchronous serial communications is covered both by using an on-chip USART and by bit-bang methods. The RS-232 standard is explained. A discussion of synchronous serial communications includes the I2C (Philips Semiconductors), SPI (Motorola) and Microwire (National Semiconductor) protocols. The Dallas Semiconductor 1-Wire bus is described. Many code examples are included as modules which will provide the basis for the reader's own PIC microcontroller applications. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965416224
• ISBN13: 9780965416221
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Square 1 Electronics
• Length: 526 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

While serial communications is still a black art even to engineers, this book helps to clear out some dust. It's helping me a lot, so I recommend it to those who are PIC micro enthusiasts. One warning though, it's not for beginner because it doen't teach PIC programming in general, it focus on I2C, SPI, microwire, bit-banging,... which means you need some general background in PIC micro and circuit design.

Love at first sight

Excellent book for anyone that need to communicate with so many serial devices. Lots of information .At last you can understand and learn and build and experiment.

Excellent Resource

This book will provide the reader with an excellent resource not only for serial communications techniques, but also for the PIC micro in general. The algorithms for bit-banging the various serial protocols are valid for other microcontrollers as well (such as the 8051). All of the code from the book I've used so far has worked with little or no modifications.

Very well written, worth the time it took to read it!!!!

Mr. Stevens has written a book that is very accurate and detailed. He covers I2C, SPI, Microwire, and Dallas Semi's 1-wire bus in great detail. I found his explanations to be simple but effetive in getting the point across. If you want to know about the PIC's serial communications options then I would highly recommend this book. You won't be disappointed.