Here’s how you use PICs:
Here’s how you use PICs:
1. Think carefully about what you want to do.
2. Decide which PIC chip you’re going to use.
4. Use the editor in MPLAB to write the code.
5. Use the MPLAB assembler (MPASM) to assemble the code.
6. Fix the billions of assembly errors.
7. Simulate your code in the MPLAB PIC simulator (MPSIM).
8. Fix more errors (usually logical and initialization errors).
9. Load the program on your development PIC with the programmer.
10. Test the PIC in circuit. Attempt to identify bugs.
11. Fix the errors (usually timing, interrupt and peripheral errors) and re-test.
12. Program an OTP (one time programmable) part for permanent use in the project, and finally, when the thing actually works, brag to your friends about how you’re on the cutting edge of embedded control.