Product Description

John Morton offers a uniquely concise and practical guide to getting up and running with the PIC Microcontroller. The PIC is one of the most popular of the microcontrollers that are transforming electronic project work and product design, and this book is the ideal introduction for students, teachers, technicians and electronics enthusiasts. Assuming no prior knowledge of microcontrollers and introducing the PICs capabilities through simple projects, this book is ideal for use in schools and colleges. The step-by-step explanations make it ideal for self-study too: this is not a reference book - you start work with the PIC straight away. The revised second edition covers the popular reprogrammable EEPROM PICs: P16C84/P16F84 as well as the P54 and P71 families.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #463344 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
"Very useful book which will provide a vital reference source to students studying PIC Microcontrollers. Good read, well laid out, good price

Customer Reviews

Nice diagrams; shame about the words
I would recommend this book as a good PIC 'cook-book' to someone already experienced in digital electronics.

For a complete beginner, the poor grammar ('The PIC154...they have 12 pins') and bizarrely organised explanations are likely to cause disaffection and confusion. In the Flowchart section, the shape and benefit of conditional jump boxes is discussed half a page before the beginner is told what a flowchart is for; 'breaking a large program into bite-size chunks'!

In the preface, the author is fairly disparaging of his proof-readers, referring to some of them as 'smug'. I suggest that if he can't take a bit of constructive criticism, he should at least run the next edition through the grammar checker in Word.