December 25
Merry Christmas
December 22
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Swordfish
BASIC SE, Unicorn and the Oshonsoft PIC18F Simulator
A little something for
Christmas, I've been tinkering with the excellent free student
edition of the
Swordfish BASIC Compiler for the PIC18F series microcontrollers.
I've even got the one button Compile, Program & Run working with the
Junebug. The program below was written for the Unicorn with 2x16 LCD
or the Oshonsoft PIC18F
simulator. Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy.
{
* Name : Christmas.BAS
* Author : William Richardson, 2007 blueroomelectronics
* Date : 12/22/2007
* Swordfish BASIC SE
* Notes : Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
* blueroomelectronics Unicorn 18F4550 with 20MHz crystal & 2x16 LCD
}
Device
= 18F4550
Clock = 8
Config FOSC = INTOSC_HS, LVP = OFF, PLLDIV = 5, CPUDIV =
OSC1_PLL2
// Use the Internal Oscillator
#option
LCD_DATA = PORTD
// Assign the LCD connections
#option
LCD_EN = PORTE.2
#option
LCD_RS = PORTE.0
#option
LCD_RW = PORTE.1
Include "LCD.bas"
Include
"utils.bas"
OSCCON = $72
// 8MHz internal OSC
SetAllDigital
// Make all pins digital I/O's
High(PORTB.3)
// Turn on the LCD backlight
DelayMS(150)
Cls // Clear the LCD screen
DelayMS(50)
WriteAt(1,1,"Merry Christmas ")
WriteAt(2,1,"& Happy New Year")
End
December 12
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Using MPLAB
8.0 for the first time? This may help
Download the
hi-resolution .PDF version here
One Page MPLAB
IDE Programming with a Junebug Tutor Sample.
For a concise manual
download Microchips MPLAB
user manual.
December 3
Unicorn Assembly Manual Updated
Updated
the LCD demo program can now be found on pages 6 & 7, the program
uses the LCD in 8bit mode with 50ms delays to initialize then it's
full speed ahead with busy flag polling. Also a custom character set
is downloaded to the CGRAM.
