Playing With PIC Pack

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Starting Off

Pic Pack is an interesting library of PIC C code for BoostC and has an accompanying set of tutorials. I can be found using the links below. I have wanted to try it out for a while, here is my experience ( so far )

Author russ_hensel

I recording some experiences playing with pic pack.

Not linked into Open Circuits may do so later.

could not find beginning of blog, best I got was part 13, googling let me find welcome finally got the archive for 08 to open,

I am using BoostC 6.90 unlimited non-commercial on a pretty much up to date XP system

First 4 parts

07 April 2008 -- 1. Introduction

07 April 2008 -- 2. Microcontrollers

07 April 2008 -- 3. Take your pic

07 April 2008 -- 4. Compilers

Make sense to me, just read them.

07 April 2008 -- 5. Your first pic program

Notes from: Jan 11 2009

  • text said: adventures\flasher: try instead: demos\flasher think this it was moved.
  • no mention of target, i left it at: 16f88 ( target is part of the project, so of course it was right for the text.
  • I tried to build, IDE said building... but then nothing? I am using 6.90

tried compile and got error locating the compiler, so I pointed the IDE to mine. Problem was I do not keep my compiler in the normal location, all users shuld check this setting if the build just seems to hang.

  • Then had error finding: C:\Source\Electronics\MicroController\Pic\PicPack\demoCopy\flasher\flasher.c(7): Unable to open include file: pic_utils.h

This is because I had moved the project, need to keep the relative locations of... demos and ...pic_pack_lib unchanged so I put a copy in the right relative location.


  • Now compiles successfully.

but got the warning

#ifndef GOT_CLOCK
	#warning "Don't know about your clock. See pic_utils.h"
#endif	

This seems to be related to lack of definition of PLATFORM_CLOCK == 12000000. Perhaps this is what should be in flasher.c instead of ( or in addition to ) #pragma CLOCK_FREQ 8000000 Or perhaps it is just a warning to be ignored.

  • note that
   /*
  
   */ 

in the code denotes a comment ( and that the contents is ignored by the compiler).

08 April 2008 -- 6. Chip Programming

  • I am going to try an 18f2550 so looking up the configurations setting for it.

I am confused about config1, 2.... and the high and low so how do I read the .h file? Seems that for the 18F2550 we need

_CONFIG1L,  _CONFIG1H,   _CONFIG2L,   .... 

this seems at least to compile .... but the linker fails with

Error: .obj or .lib file wrong target type
Error: Failed to process:pic_utils.obj

Perhaps i am still missing some sort of config or #define switch. But no problem fixed by removing all but ._c .c and .h files and recompiling, changing target from 16F to 18F was probably the problem.

Putting in the configuration took me a long time, 16 config locations. Not sure I have them right, perhaps if I copied a configuration from some bootloader that worked on my chip?

08 April 2008 -- 7. Bootloading

  • I do not want to use 16f88, I do not have one, I will use either the 18f2550 or if I have to the 16F877 which I have a lot of, and have used a lot.


Good night for now....

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12 April 2008 8. Serial ports

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[http://embeddedadventures.blogspot.com/2008/04/8-its-about-time.html

14 April 2008 9. It's about time


16 April 2008 10. On Display


19 April 2008 11. It's hot in here

19 April 2008 12. Which Pic?

22 April 2008 13. It's about time

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