(The lack of choice for assembler should give you some Now we’ll use the menu to create a assembler program. The Microchip PIC devices have very little memory so we need anĮasy-to-use means of figuring out how much memory our programs are using. Notice that the lower left corner is occupied by a Most of the choices are presently grayed out, because they can’t be used until you are working on a project. Pay particular attention to items under Debug. Press on the choices to look at their submenus. Move your mouse over the menu choices at the top of the window, It will cost you about $1000 to get the optimizing “PRO” compiler.Īlso, notice that your projects are going to be stored in directories with names that end with a capital X, such asĪt this point you have a NetBeans environment that will be familiar to We are using the free (unlicensed) version. The XC 16 is Microchip’s latest compiler for its 16-bit processors, Have to be that precise in your selection,īut usually you must choose the device the that matches the one If you are using the simulator, as we are today, you don’t There were a lot of devices to choose from. Let’s mention a couple of things before going on. Avoid the ones with the red and yellow dots. You may have noticed that many of selected choices were preceded byĪ little green dot.

Next time you’ll beĪble to speed up this process by choosing the

Choose the 16-bit MCUs (PIC24) family and.

Then work your way through a few windows. To begin the process of creating a project. Short (and inexpensively produced) videos about MPLAB X.įirst Project in MPLAB X Creating the project You’ll find many links on this startup page Your first menu should give you tabs with labels like: It may take a little while to start when you first fire up. Or you can use your mouse to run MPLAB IDE using the Linux menu selections High-Performance Microcontrollers (MCU) and Digital Signal Controllers (DSC)Īnd the 278 pages of the MPLAB ® XC16 Assember, Linker and Utilities User’s Guide If you want to read 226 pages about MPLAB X, check out theġ6-bit MCU and DSC Programmer’s Reference Manual: You can get a list of common instructions from MPLAB XC 16 Compiler – v1.11 is installed in the lab.MPLAB X IDE – v1.90 is installed in the lab.

You can download your own copy of MPLAB X from The older MPLAB 8 only ran under Windows. Software is NetBeans based and will run under Linux, Mac and Windows. We (UNC Asheville) have decided to make the move to the newĮven though the textbook still uses the older MPLAB 8. CSCI 255 - Introducing MPLAB X & PIC assembly CSCI 255 - Introducing MPLAB ® X & PIC assembly

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