Category Archives: PIC32

MPLAB X PIC32 projects now on Bitbucket.org!

Posted on 24. May 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

  In the process of updating the projects in the PIC32 book (“Programming 32-bit microcontrollers in C”) to the latest and greatest version of MPLAB X and the XC32 compiler, I have decided to  adopt a proper versioning tool (Mercurial aka Hg) … Continue reading →

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X Files

Posted on 12. April 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

I have just received from a friend a link to a piece of the history of the first “singe chip calculator”:  http://www.spingal.plus.com/micro/ The web  page is titled “Microprocessor History” and tells the story of what was research and development work … Continue reading →

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In-Animate

Posted on 1. February 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

MPLAB X is evolving, and this means that new features are being added at every release. Sadly some old features that have been with us since the early days of MPLAB have gone the way of the dodo. Animate is … Continue reading →

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Playing MP3 and Wav files on the uMedia boards

Posted on 20. January 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

I have received a couple of requests recently for support interfacing a PIC32 or a PIC24 to some popular MP3 decoders/codecs from VLSI technology. Since I had a PIC24 MicroMedia board on my desk that begged to be used, I … Continue reading →

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Generating Map files with MPLAB X

Posted on 15. January 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

I started using MPLAB X since the very first betas were made available so I have eventually acquired a little confidence with the tool. Occasionally though I can still find myself hunting around for a feature/configuration parameter that is not … Continue reading →

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More tools from Mikroe

Posted on 17. July 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

Every now and then I get a chance to talk to the guys at Mikroe and they never fail to surprise me, both for the amount of work they get done in a short time and most importantly the quality … Continue reading →

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SDHC and SDXC

Posted on 20. June 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

A couple of readers have warned me recently that SDHC and SDXC cards are becoming the norm and that spells troubles for the unaware. In fact, both in the PIC24 (both editions) and the PIC32 book, I spent a couple … Continue reading →

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CUI32 Stem

Posted on 30. May 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

CUI stands for “Create USB Interface” and it is really an open project based on the PIC32 that includes a large set of modular hardware and software solutions, in their words: “The Create USB Interface is an open source microcontroller … Continue reading →

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32-bit PIC programming in Python!

Posted on 15. May 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

It has been a long journey for me to learn about modern interpreted object oriented programming languages, first on the desktop (see post here), later on industrial control and data acquisition applications (see post here) and now I feel like … Continue reading →

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The Sinclair ZX Spectrum turns 30!

Posted on 23. April 2012 by Lucio Di Jasio

Happy Birthday ZX Spectrum! Today Google UK  dedicates the daily doodle to  the 30th birthday of the ZX Spectrum. I am part of that generation that learned to love computers/programming playing games like Manic Miner on an 8-bit little console … Continue reading →

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