PIC - Microcontroller Project Book

Beginner's guide to the popular PIC Microcontroller.

Get all the advantages of the Basic Stamp, at one quarter the cost and one hundred times the speed u with Microchips Company's 8-bit PIC computer-on-a-chip. The no assembly required PIC Microcontroller Project Book, by popular TAB author John Iovine, shows you how to program the PIC using Microchip's free MPLAB compiler and the BASIC programming language. Learn about the two most popular PIC chips,exploring architecture, registers, CPU, RISC, RAM, and ROM.

This project-oriented guide gives you twelve complete projects, including: using transistors to control DC and AC motors and AC appliances...servo motors...liquid crystal display (LCD) output...reading resistive sensors with robotics applications...frequency generator, including tone generations, DTMF phone number logger and distinct ring detector and router...home automation using X-10 communications...digital oscilloscope...simulations of fuzzy logic and neural networks...and many other applications.

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Microcontroller.

Chapter 2. Software Installation (Compiler and Programmer).

Chapter 3. PIC16F84 Microcontroller.

Chapter 4. Reading I/O Lines.

Chapter 5. PICBasic Language Reference.

Chapter 6. Characteristics of the 16F84 Microcontroller.

Chapter 7. Speech Synthesizer.

Chapter 8. Serial Communication and Creating I/O Lines.

Chapter 9. LCD Alphanumeric Display.

Chapter 10. Sensors: Resistive, Neural, and Fuzzy Logic.

Chapter 11. DC Motor Control.

Chapter 12: Stepper Motor Control.

Chapter 13. Servomotor Control.

Chapter 14. Analog-to-Digital (A/D) Converters.

Chapter 15. Controlling Ac Appliances.