Category Archives: PIC16

Ten Projects for Simplicity

Posted on 24. July 2015 by Lucio Di Jasio

While waiting for the PICDEM Curiosity board  (DM164137) to become more “available”, I kept at testing various new click boards with the “Simplicity board” aka PICKIT3 Low Pin Count demo board (DM164130-9).   Note the two SIL connectors added to the … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two (USB) Bootloaders

Posted on 2. July 2015 by Lucio Di Jasio

I have been looking with great interest at boot loaders design in recent months. It all started with the “Graphics, Touch, Sound and USB”  book I published last year, where I used  Mikromedia boards as my primary hardware platform to … Continue reading →

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eXtreme USB with PIC16F145x

Posted on 1. July 2015 by Lucio Di Jasio

Believe it or not, this is the USB temperature data-logger project recently (June 15, 2015) posted on Hackaday.io by Michael Mogenson.  Now the temperature sensing aspect of the project is relatively interesting to me, what is absolutely unique is the ingenuity applied to … Continue reading →

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Microcontroller Core Simulation Strategies

Posted on 30. May 2015 by Lucio Di Jasio

There are several reasons why you might want to write a simulator for a micro controller: education, debugging, legacy/preservation, or just fun. Over the years I have felt the need for a bit of all of the above and I have … Continue reading →

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Waiting for Curiosity -> Simplicity

Posted on 27. May 2015 by Lucio Di Jasio

While preparing the code examples for the “Rocket Science” book, I had an opportunity to play with a prototype of a soon to be released new 8-bit board called “Curiosity” featuring a built in PICkit3 programmer/debugger (a la PIC24/PIC32 Starter Kit) and, … Continue reading →

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8-bit is Easier! This is (not) Rocket Science – new Book on Lulu!

Posted on 16. April 2015 by Lucio Di Jasio

I felt the urge to write another book and this time I ‘ve focused on the new 8-bit PIC16F1 family and its Core Independent Peripherals: ISBN: 978-1-312-90777-5 Lulu.com, 160 pages Three Steps to embedded Control ZEN Discover a whole new … Continue reading →

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