| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Preface to the third edition | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Some tips before starting | p. 2 |
| Binary, decimal and hexadecimal | p. 2 |
| An 8-bit system | p. 5 |
| Initial steps | p. 5 |
| Choosing your PIC microcontroller | p. 6 |
| Writing | p. 10 |
| Assembling | p. 10 |
| The file registers | p. 10 |
| A program template | p. 13 |
| Exploring the PIC5x series | p. 20 |
| Your first program | p. 20 |
| Configuration bits | p. 22 |
| Testing the program | p. 23 |
| Simulating | p. 23 |
| Emulating | p. 23 |
| Blowing the PIC microcontroller | p. 24 |
| Hardware | p. 24 |
| Using the testing instructions | p. 29 |
| Timing | p. 32 |
| Seven-segment displays | p. 44 |
| The program counter | p. 46 |
| Subroutines and the stack | p. 48 |
| Logic gates | p. 65 |
| The watchdog timer | p. 69 |
| Final instructions | p. 73 |
| The STATUS file register | p. 74 |
| The carry and digit carry flags | p. 75 |
| Pages | p. 76 |
| What caused the reset? | p. 79 |
| Indirect addressing | p. 80 |
| Some useful (but not vital) tricks | p. 82 |
| Final PIC5x program - 'Bike buddy' | p. 85 |
| The PIC12F50x series (8-pin PIC microcontrollers) | p. 90 |
| Differences from the PIC16F54 | p. 90 |
| The STATUS register | p. 90 |
| The OSCCAL register | p. 91 |
| Inputs and outputs | p. 92 |
| The OPTION register | p. 92 |
| The TRIS register | p. 93 |
| The general purpose file registers | p. 93 |
| The MCLR | p. 93 |
| Configuration bits | p. 93 |
| Example project: 'PIC dice' | p. 94 |
| Random digression | p. 95 |
| Intermediate operations using the PIC12F675 | p. 100 |
| The inner differences | p. 101 |
| The OPTION and WPU registers | p. 102 |
| The TRISIO register | p. 103 |
| Calibrating the internal oscillator | p. 103 |
| PCLATH: Higher bits of the program counter | p. 104 |
| Remaining differences | p. 105 |
| Interrupts | p. 105 |
| INTCON | p. 106 |
| The interrupt service routine | p. 107 |
| Interrupts during sleep | p. 109 |
| Maintaining the STATUS quo | p. 109 |
| New program template | p. 110 |
| Example project: 'Quiz game controller' | p. 112 |
| EEPROM | p. 116 |
| EECON1 | p. 116 |
| Reading from the EEPROM | p. 116 |
| Writing to the EEPROM | p. 117 |
| Example project: 'Telephone card chip' | p. 118 |
| Further EEPROM examples: Music maker | p. 122 |
| Power monitor | p. 122 |
| Analogue to digital conversion | p. 122 |
| ADCON0 | p. 123 |
| ANSEL: Analogue select register | p. 124 |
| A/D conversion interrupt | p. 125 |
| Example project: 'Bath monitor' | p. 125 |
| Comparator module | p. 129 |
| Voltage reference | p. 130 |
| Comparator interrupts | p. 130 |
| Comparator example: 'Sun follower' | p. 131 |
| Comparator example: Reading many buttons from one pin | p. 132 |
| Final project: Intelligent garden lights | p. 134 |
| Advanced operations and the future | p. 138 |
| Extra timers: TMR1 & ... | p. 138 |
| Capture/Compare/PWM | p. 139 |
| USART: Serial communication | p. 140 |
| Programming tips | p. 142 |
| A PIC development environment | p. 143 |
| Sample programs | p. 145 |
| LedOn - Turns an LED on | p. 145 |
| PushButton (1.0) - If a push button is pressed, turns on an LED | p. 146 |
| PushButton (2.0) - Shorter version of PushButton 1.0 | p. 147 |
| Timing - LED states toggled every second, and buzzer on every five seconds | p. 148 |
| Traffic - Pedestrian traffic lights junction is simulated | p. 150 |
| Counter (1.0) - Counts signals from a push button, resets after 16 | p. 152 |
| Counter (2.0) - Stop reading button twice (otherwise, as Counter 1.0) | p. 154 |
| Counter (3.0) - Solves button bounce (otherwise, as Counter 2.0) | p. 156 |
| StopClock - A stop clock displaying tenths of seconds to minutes | p. 158 |
| LogicGates - Acts as the eight different gates | p. 162 |
| Alarm - An alarm system which can be set or disabled | p. 164 |
| BikeBuddy - A speedometer and mileometer for bikes | p. 165 |
| PIC Dice - A pair of dice are simulated | p. 171 |
| Quiz - Indicates which of three push buttons has been pressed first | p. 175 |
| Phonecard - To act like a phonecard which decrements a file register | p. 177 |
| TempSense - Displays whether temperature is too hot, too cold or OK | p. 181 |
| p. 183 |
| Specifications of some Flash PIC microcontrollers | p. 189 |
| Pin layouts of some Flash PIC microcontrollers | p. 191 |
| Instructions glossary | p. 192 |
| Number system conversion | p. 195 |
| Bit assignments of various file registers | p. 196 |
| If all else fails, read this | p. 203 |
| Contacts and further reading | p. 204 |
| PICKit 1 & BFMP Info | p. 205 |
| Answers to the exercises | p. 207 |
| Some BASIC commands in assembly | p. 222 |
| Index | p. 223 |
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