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Introduction to Microcontroller Programming
About PICmicro Chips
Clocking Your PICmicro Devices
E-Blocks
Flowcode Step By Step
PICmicro Projects
Labs
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Acronyms Used And Course Conventions
 
The following abbreviations are made use of in this course:
- ADC
- Analogue to Digital Converter
- ALU
- Arithmetic Logic Unit
- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- CPU
- Central Processing Unit
- EEPROM
- Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
- EPROM
- Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
- GND
- Ground
- Hex
- Hexadecimal
- IDC
- Insulation Displacement Connector
- I/O
- Input / Output
- ISP
- In-System Programming
- JPEG
- Joint Picture Expert Group (standard for images)
- LCD
- Liquid Crystal Display
- LED
- Light Emitting Diode
- LVP
- Low Voltage Programming
- LDR
- Light Dependant Resistor
- LSB
- Least Significant Bit
- MSB
- Most Significant Bit
- NVRAM
- Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
- PIC
- Peripheral Interface Controller
- PROM
- Programmable Read Only Memory
- PSU
- Power Supply Unit
- RAM
- Random Access Memory
- RV1
- Resistor-Variable 1
- SPI
- Serial Programmable Interface
- XTAL
- Crystal
- ZIF
- Zero Insertion Force
- +V
- positive supply voltage
In this course we will use the following conventions:
- Matrix Multimedia products are capitalised on the first word
- Multiprogrammer, Prototype board, Flowcode
- Flowcode menu instructions will be presented like this
- File > Open
- All acronyms will be fully spelt out the first time they are mentioned
- EPROM (Electrically Programmable Read Only Memory)
- Where a string in a dialogue box is mentioned in the text then it should be in single quotes
- Change the value in the 'Delay value or variable' text box
- We will use European circuit symbols
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