22. March 2009 by admin.

The Lite edition of the Proton Development Suite is a special version of our fully-fledged Proton Development Suite. As a standalone product, the Lite Edition is a free and fully functional, non-expiring download which includes the Compiler, the IDE and the ISIS Simulator. Of course, because it’s a Lite Edition, there are some limitations over the Full Edition — The Lite Edition supports the following devices:

·         PIC12C508: The 8-pin, 12-bit 12C508 device is arguably the best-selling microcontroller of all-time, but has now been superceded by the 14-bit 12Fxxx range.

·         PIC12F675: The 8-pin, 14-bit 12F675 is one of the new breed of PICmicros® that incorporates advantages such as ADC, comparators, on-chip EEPROM and of course Flash re-programmability.

·         PIC16F628A: The 18-pin, 14-bit 16F628A is the sucessor to the ever popular, but now very outdated, 16F84 device. The 16F628A offers 2KBytes of code space, 128Bytes of RAM, on-chipEEPROM, comparators, USART and hardware PWM.

·         PIC16F877: The 40-pin, 14-bit 16F877 is the Rolls-Royce of the 14-bit core devices and contains 8KBytes of code space, 368Bytes of RAM, 256Bytes of on-chip EEPROM and more on-chip features than you can shake a stick at - such a USART, HPWM, etc, and is the obvious choice for any new design.

The Lite Edition also has a restriction of 50 lines of valid BASIC code. This does not include; comments, lines containing only a label, or empty lines. This, we hope, should be enough to give you a feel of just how powerful the Development Suite really is!Because of the 50 line limit, the INCLUDE directive has also been disabled.The choice of crystal frequencies is also limited to 4MHz and 20MHz, as opposed to 3.58MHz, 4MHz, 8MHz, 10MHz, 12MHz, 14.32MHz, 16MHz, 20MHz, 24MHz, 32MHz and 40MHz available with the Full Retail version of the Proton Development Suite.The Lite Edition download also contains the full Proton Development Suite’s manual in PDFformat. 

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23. February 2009 by admin.

Assembly for PICmicro microcontrollers V2.0 (previously known as PICtutor) contains a complete course in programming the PICmicro microcontroller from Arizona Microchip. It starts with fundamental concepts and extends up to complex programs including watchdog timers, interrupts and sleep modes. The CD makes use of the latest simulation techniques which provide a superb tool for learning: the Virtual PICmicro microcontroller. This is a simulation tool that allows users to write and execute assembly code for the PIC16F84 microcontroller on-screen. Using this students can actually see what happens inside the PICmicro microcontroller as each instruction is executed. This enhances understanding and retains student interest.

Lowest New Price: USD $89.95

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Features:

• Includes: Comprehensive instruction through 39 tutorial sections
• Includes: Virtual PICmicro microcontroller; a fully functioning simulator
• Includes: Tests, exercises and projects covering a wide range of PICmicro applications
• Includes: MPLAB assembler

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