MCP 201: Fundamentals of Embedded C

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

Course Duration

Course Materials

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

Development Tools

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