{"id":723,"date":"2008-12-24T08:26:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T15:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=723"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:10","slug":"programming-and-customizing-picmicro-microcontrollers-by-myke-predko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/programming-and-customizing-picmicro-microcontrollers-by-myke-predko\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming and Customizing PICmicro Microcontrollers, by Myke Predko"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\"Programming<\/a><\/p>\n

Programming & Customizing PICmicro Microcontrollers<\/a>\"\", by Myke Predko<\/a>\"\", is probably the best book out there for someone who is starting out with the PIC<\/a> series of microcontrollers from Microchip<\/a>.\u00a0 I used Myke’s book as both a tutorial and reference when I created my PIC RGB Video Display<\/a>.\u00a0 Since then, I have referred back to this book countless times even when working with other microcontrollers, like Atmel’s AVR family<\/a>, because it contains so much useful architecture-independent technical information.\u00a0 I have referred to this book for information about topics including LCD interfacing, debouncing switches, RS-232 serial interfaces, and multiplexed LED drivers.\u00a0 As a technical reference it easily surpasses the majority of AVR books that are out there.<\/p>\n

The book is starting to show it’s age by not including some of the latest PIC micros in the examples (like the PIC16F628), but the code is easily ported to newer\/faster\/better microcontrollers, a good learning excercise in itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Programming & Customizing PICmicro Microcontrollers, by Myke Predko, is probably the best book out there for someone who is starting out with the PIC series of microcontrollers from Microchip.\u00a0 I used Myke’s book as both a tutorial and reference when I created my PIC RGB Video Display.\u00a0 Since then, I have referred back to this … Continue reading Programming and Customizing PICmicro Microcontrollers, by Myke Predko<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,10],"tags":[132,504,502,44],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-resources","category-microcontrollers","tag-books","tag-books-and-resources","tag-microcontrollers","tag-pic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-bF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3629,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/best-book-to-learn-c\/","url_meta":{"origin":723,"position":0},"title":"Best book to learn C?","author":"Jeff","date":"April 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"If you could recommend one book to a total beginner who wants to learn how to program in C, what would it be? 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