I've been interested in getting into microcontroller programming lately, and I've been looking at Microchips PIC16F and PIC18F series (especially the PIC16F), and also Atmel's ATtiny and ATmega ...

Microchip Technology's Production Programming Service enables all Microchip customers, regardless of their order size, to have their application code programmed into their PIC microcontrollers ...

VNC1L and PIC Programming This design contains two programming headers, one for each device assuming that a development environment is desired.

The flash-based PIC family of microcontrollers is another popular choice. Since they aren’t quite as beginner or user-friendly, setting up a programmer for them is not as straightforward.

In my next column, we will consider the programming of PICs in a little more detail. Also, we will take our PIC development environment to the next level by means of… but no, you’ll just have to wait.

Microchip has added more memory and 14 new programming instructions, including “C” efficiency optimisations to its mid-range 8-bit PIC microcontrollers. The MCUs now have program flash addressability ...

The code is intended to demonstrate the techniques discussed in John Hilton's article “PIC Programming in C Using Hand Compilation” (Embedded Systems Programming, April 1999).