Which pic

[Gaston]

I am new to micrcontrollers. i am going to build the programing board on nigel's web site. I looked in the jameco catalog to buy a pic but there are too many, Which one should i buy. and what do the suffixes mean? I alson bought a book on picbasic will the commands be the same for the programer on nigel's site?

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

I am new to micrcontrollers. i am going to build the programing board on nigel's web site. I looked in the jameco catalog to buy a pic but there are too many, Which one should i buy. and what do the suffixes mean? I alson bought a book on picbasic will the commands be the same for the programer on nigel's site?

The tutorials on my site are written in PIC assembler, not BASIC, so a book on BASIC won't help with the tutorials (and requires you to buy a BASIV compiler).

Most of my tutorials use the PIC16F628, the exact number on one in my hand is PIC16F628-04/P. The 04 means it's rated at 4MHz, but the 20MHz version is completely interchangeable, the P at the end means it's a standard Plastic DIP chip.

 

[mr_singh]

You can use start with 16f628A or with 16f84A. But you will need the datasheets of these micros. You can use the nopic programmer to programm these micros. I myself is using nopic programmer for three years without any problems. I even extended this nopic to programe pic16f72, pic 16f877A. I am using winpicpr and oshonpic programmer v 1.7.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

You can use start with 16f628A or with 16f84A. But you will need the datasheets of these micros. You can use the nopic programmer to programm these micros. I myself is using nopic programmer for three years without any problems. I even extended this nopic to programe pic16f72, pic 16f877A. I am using winpicpr and oshonpic programmer v 1.7.

Don't bother with the 84, it's been obselete for years - the 628 was it's modern replacement, use that instead - a far better chip, for less money!.