Category Archives: Tips and Tricks

I guess one of the advantages of getting older (if there is any) is that I am becoming somewhat more patient and I am learning to resist the temptation of trying out on the hardware target every single line of … Continue reading →

There are so many new features being added to MPLAB at each major (and minor) new release that I struggle to keep up. Just a couple of days ago for example, I was discussing with a colleague how it would … Continue reading →

So we understand now what we don’t know (see The Stack … so misunderstood, part 1). We know how to set a minimum limit for the Stack size. We know how to verify how much space the linker has allocated … Continue reading →

The stack is such a key element of every C program that too often we take it for granted and we don’t spend enough time to make sure we have it set properly. Most often we resolve to look into … Continue reading →

MPLAB has become such a large application, or I should better say “group” of applications, and it keeps evolving so fast that one can hardly keep up with the pace of monthly (when it is not weekly) updates. Typically before … Continue reading →

I am sure you won’t be surprised to learn that most (if not all) of the code presented in the book is derived from my past experimentations on the PIC18 and PIC16 over a few years… In particular the FileIO … Continue reading →

There is one table I have been looking for many times among the PIC24 documentation and could never find… it’s a pin-out table, nothing fancy, but a complete one that would help me figure out quickly how to tell if … Continue reading →