Product DescriptionThis book is ideal for the engineer, technician, hobbyist and student who have knowledge of the basic principles of PIC microcontrollers and want to develop more advanced applications using the 18F series. The architecture of the PIC 18FXXX series as well as typical oscillator, reset, memory, and input-output circuits is completely detailed. After giving an introduction to programming in C, the book describes the project development cycle in full, giving details of the process of editing, compilation, error handling, programming and the use of specific development tools. The bulk of the book gives full details of tried and tested hands-on projects, such as the 12C BUS, USB BUS, CAN BUS, SPI BUS and real-time operating systems.
* A clear introduction to the PIC 18FXXX microcontroller's architecture * 20 projects, including developing wireless and sensor network applications, using I2C BUS, USB BUS, CAN BUS and the SPI BUS, which give the block and circuit diagram, program description in PDL, program listing and program description. * Numerous examples of using developmental tools: simulators, in-circuit debuggers (especially ICD2) and emulators * A CDROM of all the programs, hex listings, diagrams, data sheets and tables
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Bad Book
Not only the MikroC is not work. Even different chapter uses different compiler. For USB uses PICBasic and RTOS uses CCS and the other uses MikroC. What happens the author just spend time at copy and paste. Almost the 2/3 of the books is the general purpose information and just useful for the beginning student. I am very disappointed at this book.
Rating: - Great Book
This is a very useful addition to any PIC programmer's library. In particular it fills the gap between the mikroC manual and getting into some real working projects. The projects are practical and useful and the writing style coax's the reader through an effective and structured learning process. Given that C is industry standard this text would be very useful to anyone converting from Assembler or Basic.
Highly Recomended
Rating: - Not a good choice.
Although there aren't any books related with C programming for the PIC18F family, I would not recommend this book. I expected a more serious and detailed approach of building a C project for these microcontrollers avoiding to use ready made C libraries of a specific compiler like microC. I would only recommend this book to novice programmers and especially to those owning the microC compiler. The term "advanced" does not fit in this book. I have found much more advanced topis and learned searching ... Read More
Rating: - Does not live up to exectations...by a long shot
I pre-ordered this book 2 to 3 months before it came out. Based on the authors past work I figured he knew how to deliver. Didn't happen. Most of the books is reprint of the data sheet and microC syntax. The author teaches microC, and I was expected something a bit more main-stream, by page after page after page of syntax.
Then the author gets in to logn discussion about what GUI's and work environments one could use. A little is ok, even helpful but the author just continues to ... Read More
Rating: - Misleading title, this book is not for advanced programmers
I was very disappointed with this book. The title is very misleading. The projects are not at advanced and are mostly coded specially to use the MikroC compiler and will not work in other environments without extensive porting or rewriting.
Unless you are a beginner and use the MikroC compiler select a different book.
- Bad Book
- Great Book
- Not a good choice.
