MCP 201: Fundamentals of Embedded C for PIC18 & ST Microelectronics Microcontrollers

No previous programming experience is required for this course, only basic PC usage is essential.

Course Duration

  • Five days at 5 hours per day.

Course Materials

  • Comprehensive delegate handbook.

Course Objectives

  • Provide basic understanding of PIC microcontrollers design and programming using C language.
  • Demonstrate a simple practical utilization of PIC microcontrollers for real-world applications using C.

Participants Will Learn

  • Fundamentals of Embedded C programming.
  • How to program a PIC16 microcontroller using C.
  • Introduction to Embedded C (MikroC, CCS, MPLABC).
  • Introduction to PIC18 microcontrollers: Architectural overview, CPU, instruction sets, stack, development tools.
  • Primitive Types, Variables and Constants: Variable types, declaration, variable scope, local variables, global variables, numeric constants, enumerations, declaration and initialization, naming convention, assignment and arithmetic operators, type casting, precedence and associativity.
  • Control Statements
  • Sequential Statements
  • Conditional Statements: Logical operators, comparison operators, if/else, switch/case.
  • Looping: While loop, for loop, do-while loop, endless/infinite loops.
  • Goto, Break and Continue Statements.
  • Functions: Prototypes, functions with return types, functions with parameters/arguments, recursion.
  • Arrays: Declaring an array, assigning values/elements to an array, sorting array elements.
  • Memory Organization and Types, Real-Time Methods and I/O Ports: Register variables, using interrupts, counters and resets, state machines, data memory flash memory, return address stack, parallel slave port (PSP) mode.
  • Timers: Timer0, Timer1, Timer2, watchdog timer, Serial I/O, USART, CAN, SPI, I2C, ADC
  • Compiling and running programs: Introduction, compiling your program, assembling your program, download/burn/program code to microcontroller.

Lab

  • Interfacing Different Hardware to Microcontrollers:
  • LCD
  • Seven Segment Display
  • Keypad
  • Stepper Motors
  • PC Computer

Development Tools

  • MikroC/Pic-C/MPLAB, Keil C, IAR, PICBasic Pro Integrated Development Environment (IDE), compiler, linker, simulator, programmers, PIC development boards.

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