Post by thread:Life is great! So are PICs!!

Well, just to thank you all for your help! I now have a board that talks to a PC through two I/O mapped FIFOs. Works great! For all you people trying to build your first app, well, I have to tell that I never found nothing as easy as the PIC. Really! I just took a breadboard, a PIC16c64, a 20MHz crystal and two 33pf ceramyc capacitors. Programmed the PIC with a nice TMR1/CCP1 based routine, and voila'! A nice yellow Led blinking! 8) I had to laugh at the assembly, because it looked really ugly, with all the wires in the air! It didn't work first time, but that was before I programmed the Port A to Output! 8) PICs are great! Bye, Nuno. -- .^. _,^,_ /\ ___( | )_____ Nuno Filipe Freitas Pedrosa __________ o(`} | , __/\/ /__ /*\\|//*\ SIEMENS S.A. Portugal (]| /' \ \/\ \(\\V//)/ spam_OUTNuno.PedrosaTakeThisOuToen.siemens.de (]|`% (") \/\ \ ` -=- ' Tel. :00351-1-4242454 (") /`/ / /\/ __B//|\\P___________________________________________\' / `/______\/____ `-' "Try and leave this world a little better than you found it..."

Nuno wrote: > Well, just to thank you all for your help! I now have a board that > talks to a PC through two I/O mapped FIFOs. Works great! That's what we are here for. Most of us remember being Newbies on PICs because it was last year! > I had to laugh at the assembly, because it looked really ugly, with > all the wires in the air! I told my daughter that I was going to bring home one of my prototypes, a breadmaking machine. She looked glum. I asked her why, and she said "I don't want the one with all the wires hanging, I want a REAL one!" > > It didn't work first time, but that was before I programmed the Port > A to Output! 8) > I propose a Poll: How many tries does it take to get a prototype working? My usual number is at least three, and often it's more like ten. > PICs are great! Yup. -- Lawrence Lile "The ideal design has zero parts" - (attributed to Harold Hallikainen) Download AutoCad blocks for electrical drafting at: http://home1.gte.net/llile/index.htm