Archives for: November 2008
Ground control to Major Tom. (Serial communication)
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One of the last modules you will come to know and love is that of the USART module. There are many communication modules that PIC MCUs offer, but USART is going to be one of the simplest and easiest to get off the ground, sending and receiving data.
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Pointers
Pointers are a very fundamental part of programming, often you need to reference a memory location without directly addressing or calling it, pointers help us do that. With c/c++ pointers can be a little daunting because how they work isn't directly appa… more »
Time
As your code gets more complex and so does the tasks you wish to perform its often important to take advantage of the build in hardware and gain the ability to multitask. One of the last modules to go over is the timer module. There are several timers bu… more »
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