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#244099 - 15/12/2004 18:57 PIC C Compiler
andym
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Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3996
Loc: Manchester UK
I'm having a play with my DAB module and I've realised that I'm not going to get away without a PIC being plumbed in to do some i2c to serial port conversions. I've got a cheap PIC blower and dev board and written a few very simple things in assembler. I feel it would be better to continue in a language I'm more familiar with.

So, any recommendations?
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#244100 - 15/12/2004 20:07 Re: PIC C Compiler [Re: andym]
sn00p
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Registered: 24/07/2002
Posts: 618
Loc: South London
Quote:
I'm having a play with my DAB module and I've realised that I'm not going to get away without a PIC being plumbed in to do some i2c to serial port conversions. I've got a cheap PIC blower and dev board and written a few very simple things in assembler. I feel it would be better to continue in a language I'm more familiar with.

So, any recommendations?


Personally I'd pick up something like a AVR dev. board because it has JTAG on it and you can buy an ("clone") emulator for $40 (www.olimex.com) that works with the ATMEL tools. It's far easier to develop with an emulator rather than the "Write, Burn, Test" loop. I've never tried 'C' on the AVR or PIC only assembler, but on any of the 8 bitters I can't imagine it's that great. I think that microchip are much more expensive for emulators than atmel.

I dislike writing anything in assembler thesedays, far too much time overhead with zero portability.

A philips LPC kit (ARM7) could be had for less than $70, one of the project's I'm working on at work uses one of that family and they're pretty cool little processors, I use 'C' on that without problem, and again it's JTAG so emulation is dirt cheap.

Adrian

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#244101 - 23/12/2004 15:06 Re: PIC C Compiler [Re: andym]
altman
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Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
The PICs in the empeg use the CCS PIC C compiler. Neither of them do much that's overly complex, but it was less painful to use a compiler anyway - $125 for either the 12 or 14 bit version and nice things like software serial ports built-in.

http://www.ccsinfo.com/ccscorder.shtml

Hugo

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#244102 - 23/12/2004 16:35 Re: PIC C Compiler [Re: altman]
andym
carpal tunnel

Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3996
Loc: Manchester UK
Very interesting, I wonder if it's too late to ask Santa....
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