Category Archives: PIC32

MPLAB X

So it is done! After more than two years from my first hopeful post I have completed the transition. I have severed all my connections with Windows. MPLAB  was the last strong chain keeping prisoner but with the latest release … Continue reading

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Maximite

I have to confess that, if I had not already done so in the past,  when I wrote some of the material for the PIC24″flying” book such as the composite video and the keyboard interface examples, I had a bigger … Continue reading

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PIC32MX7 PIM, RB5 pin conflict (solved)

I need to thank Martin K. for bringing to my attention an issue that appears to be affecting quite a few of the readers of my PIC32 book when they attempt to use one of the new MX7 PIMs on … Continue reading

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MikroE Mini-32 Board

The guys at MikroElektronika have done it again! Here is another brilliant new development board for the PIC32: the Mini-32 This board makes a PIC32MX5 fit in the exact form factor of a standard PIC16 or PIC18 40-pin DIP with … Continue reading

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Donate to Wikipedia

I am not ashamed to admit that I love and use a lot Wikipedia. It is fast, convenient and gets most of the technical stuff I typically look up right to the level I can understand and use it. But … Continue reading

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PIC32 Interrupt Nesting (update)

The more recent versions of the MPLAB C32 compiler (v1.6 and later) have changed the way interrupt nesting is defined by default by making it automatically Enabled! The effect of this change is that of making part of the “nesting.c” … Continue reading

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Graphics Library 3.02

After more than a year of inactivity,  I have only recently checked the version number of the latest Microchip Graphic Library release and to my horror discovered that I was far behind. The major revision number had jumped (from 2 … Continue reading

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Home Brewed IDE for PIC32 assembly development

I just received a link from Cosimo Zizza pointing to his new “home brewed” Integrated Development Environmentfor the PIC32, called “Idd”. In the author intentions, it is designed specifically to assist in the development of assembly programs for the PIC32. … Continue reading

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Yoda Conditions, Egyptian brackets and more…

  I just stumbled upon this excellent blog post. Enjoy…

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AVI Player Project (for the uMMB)

I have finally cleaned up and posted the code for the Audio and Video player for the PIC32 uMMB board. It is perhaps the shortest code example among the many I have developed for the Mikroe boards, yet so many … Continue reading

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