Code Snippets and Macros

Useful Code Snippets and Macros

I am consistently amazed at the ingenuity people have shown over the years in developing small pieces of code to simplify the PICmicro application code development process. In these pages, I have summarized all the different pieces of code and macros that I have come up with and I have found useful on the Internet. Before starting any application on your own, I suggest you look through these pages to see if there is any code here that will make your life easier (I can almost guarantee there is):

Rentron Articles

In 1999, I spent some time writing articles for Bruce Reynold's Rentron website. These articles were largely done in order to work through ideas I had for this book. Some of the code is included in the book and you should see an earlier version of the "El Cheapo" programmer that you can build and use for your own applications.

PICmicro® MCU "Watch" Files

When I created and tested the code for this book, I made a number of generic MPLAB IDE "watch" files. If you are new to the PICmicro MCU and/or the MPLAB/IDE, you might want to select these files from the "C:\PICmicro\code\procewat" directory on your PC to help you get started with your own applications instead of learning how to create watch files along with learning how to program the PICmicro MCU, how to wire it into a circuit, etcetera...

Note that when you are creating your own watch files, that Bank 1 and Bank 3 register names may be in lower case while Bank 0 and Bank 2 register names are in upper case. As well, I have seen some changes to watch files between versions of the MPLAB Integrated Development Editor - the watch files may require some modifications if any version of the MPLAB IDE other than 5.11, that is included on this CD-ROM. I do not recommend using an editor like "NotePad" to make any required changes - instead use the MPLAB IDE editing functions.

In the list below, I have included "clickable" links to the different watch files included on the CD-ROM, but I recommend that you "Load" from the MPLAB IDE them when you have started a new project. In the list below, I have specified which PICmicro MCUs the watch files can also be used with:

12c50x.wat - PIC12C508/PIC12C509 basic register "Watch"
16c505.wat - PIC16C505 basic register "Watch"
16c54.wat - PIC16C54 basic register "Watch"
16c56.wat - PIC16C56 basic register "Watch"
16c711.wat - PIC16C71/PIC16C71x basic register "Watch"
16c73b.wat - PIC16C73/PIC16C74 all Silicon revisions basic register "Watch"
16f84.wat - PIC16F84 basic register "Watch"
16f877.wat - PIC16C76/PIC16C77 all Silicon revisions basic register "Watch"
17cxx.wat - PIC17C4X all Silicon revisions basic register "Watch"
18cxxx.wat - All PIC18CXX2 Part Number Silicon revisions basic register "Watch"
eeprom.wat - PIC6F84 EEPROM Access Registers