I live in Vancouver. I want to start some PIC projects. I am experienced in motorola HC12(but no longer has the kit).
Question is where can I get some PIC for a reasonable price. I might also be interest in an evaluation board.
I know a local electronic distrubution office that sells parts, but they sell like 1000 units at a time. I kind of know the distrubution manager, should I ask for some samples?
really? May I get free sample of dsPIC? Who should I contact with for free samples? If you did get free samples, pls give meeh the direct addresses. Thanks. I did ask for many times about free samples, but I receive no answer.
Have a look at my tutorials, the 16F628 is a good start, then the 16F876/7 for more advanced hardware options and more I/O - it's easier to stick to FLASH/EEPROM based PIC's.
It's 8x8 hardware multiplier really speeds up projects that require a lot of multiplications and the fact that you can play around with the stack on 18F's allows interesting things alwell...
The P16PRO40 is one of the most popular, you can download the circuit from my website - they are available from many sources. DIY Electronics in Hong Kong sell kits for them, which are available through many retailers.
Yes, sorry I didn't make that bit clear the picstart-plus is a bit expensive, I always used to use a david tait stylee programmer with ic-prog http://www.ic-prog.com/
This s/w is very good, and the authour, Bonny, is a top bloke! and even better is free :wink:
Anyway I went to a PIC "sell you loads of pics" seminar and got the picstart thrown in with the price. I still think that for ease of use and firmware updates (now flash with mplab 6.x and an update PCB (£17) if needed, all new picstarts have the flash pcb) the picstart is hard to beat, if a little slow!
Not sure about Nigels programmer, never used one, sorry.
I don't actually do a 'programmer', just the software WinPicProg, but I include the circuit for the P16PRO40 (an enhanced David Tait style programmer) on my website as I get loads of requests for a circuit.
Incidently, ICProg includes the old 16 bit version of my disassembler, so I've always suspected he based it on my old 16 bit code (which I released when I stopped 16 bit development).
Unfortunately the author of ICProg no longer answers emails, presumably he got swamped by including serial port programmers as well as parallel port ones?.
ICProg is a fine program, and supports more chips than WinPicProg, but isn't as fast - WinPicProg is generally considered the fastest PIC programmer software. As you say, the PIC Start+ is particularly slow!.
I see that the PROPIC2 programmer is the same to your programmer (I saw the schems). So may I use your programmer with ICPROG? Because ICPRO works quite good under XP, and you said winpicprog has some problems with XP?
So I should choose David Tait hardware of ICPROG to program for your 16PRO40?