Designing Embedded Systems with PIC Microcontrollers: Principles and Applications

✍ Scribed by Tim Wilmshurst

• Publisher: Newnes
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 583
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of embedded system design using the PIC microcontroller. Packed with helpful examples and illustrations, it gives an in-depth treatment of microcontroller design, programming in both assembly language and C, and features advanced topics such as networking and real-time operating systems. It is accompanied by a companion website containing copies of all programs and software tools used in the text and a 'student' version of the C complier. Designing Embedded Systems with PIC Microcontrollers: Principles and Applications is ideal for students of electronics, mechatronics and computer engineering. Engineers in industry and informed hobbyists will also find this book a valuable resource when designing and implementing both simple and sophisticated embedded systems using the PIC Microcontroller. Support material, including new and supporting information, links to useful sites, and errata, is available from the book's companion site. Gain the knowledge and skills required for developing today's embedded systems, through use of the PIC microcontroller. Explore in detail the 16F84A, 16F873A and 18F242 microcontrollers as examples of the wider PIC family. Learn how to program in Assembler and C. Work through sample designs and design ideas, including a robot in the form of an autonomous guided vehicle. *Accompanied by a CD-ROM containing copies of all programs and software tools used in the text and a 'student' version of the C complier.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
1 Tiny computers, hidden control......Page 30
2 Introducing the PIC® 16 Series and the 16F84A......Page 52
3 Parallel ports, power supply and the clock oscillator......Page 72
4 Starting to program – an introduction to Assembler......Page 92
5 Building Assembler programs......Page 116
6 Working with time: interrupts, counters and timers......Page 147
7 Larger systems and the PIC® 16F873A......Page 172
8 The human and physical interfaces......Page 211
9 Taking timing further......Page 252
10 Starting with serial......Page 290
11 Data acquisition and manipulation......Page 331
12 Smarter systems and the PIC® 18FXX2......Page 362
13 The PIC® 18FXX2 peripherals......Page 395
14 Introducing C......Page 413
15 C and the embedded environment......Page 436
16 Acquiring and using data with C......Page 450
17 More C and the wider C environment......Page 471
18 Multi-tasking and the Real Time Operating System......Page 493
19 The SalvoTM Real Time Operating System......Page 507
20 Connectivity and networks......Page 540
Appendix 1 The PIC® 16 Series instruction set......Page 554
Appendix 2 The electronic ping-pong......Page 555
Appendix 3 The Derbot AGV – hardware design details......Page 560
Appendix 4 Some basics of Autonomous Guided Vehicles......Page 564
Appendix 5 PIC® 18 Series instruction set (non-extended)......Page 568
Appendix 6 Essentials of C......Page 571
Index......Page 576