Swordfish

See if this alternative method works.

normnet wrote:Next is a stand alone VGA monitor 8 bit mini video card with a PIC18 and some supporting logic.

Norm

Have you seen this? http://www.micro-examples.com/public/mi ... al-tv.html

What are some of these projects which make use of 144-pin, 1mB Flash, 6kB RAM ARM? PIC32 also has the larger capacity but I'm not sure what it would be used for. Norm Think of any current consumer electronics - portable media players, handheld games, remote controls, etc. Stuff with color graphic L...

I agree with octal. The only situation where I see using a PIC (in particular the 6-pin PIC10's) or similar device, is when space is severely constrained - even then only on a volume commercial application. For everything else, one of the small Cortex M0/M3 ARM's (such as the 7x7mm, 33-pin, 65 cent ...

You should be able to use any of the MicroChip devices that support ICD - even the PicKIT2. See here http://www.sfcompiler.co.uk/wiki/pmwiki ... r.MPLABICD

I concur. MC (and perhaps Atmel) are probably the last few holdouts in the MCU world that still make DIP packages. To get the performance/features of a typical Cortex M0/M3, you would be looking at a PIC32 and as you pointed out, they also are not available as DIPs. Interestingly, I just posted this...

Another thing to consider in making the move to C from BASIC. I would be interested in the total development package - IDE, compiler and most importantly, hardware debug capability. These features need to be seamlessly integrated. The MPLAB/C18-C30-C32 package is somewhat appealing in this respect -...

CharlieM, check your PM.

....The market must be so much smaller than I thought. Catering to what is essentially a hobby market is severely limited. Consider that the total number of members of the 3 most popular PIC BASIC forums is only about 13,000 (mikroE, including C, PASCAL and hardware products - 9,258, PicBASIC - 3,3...

Thanks for the info. I am aware of these 2:
http://www.coridiumcorp.com/Programming3.php
http://www.hbbrbasic.com/documentation/ ... v2000.html

It is not just the editor (or IDE). A lot of the new ARM hardware (such as the abovementioned LPC111x) have a much nicer architecture and far more powerful and flexible peripherals. ST has also announced several new Cortex M3 based devices that start at under $1. Now what would be really nice is a B...

Well after working with the LPC111x tool chain for about 2 weeks, I have good news and bad news. First, the good news. The LPC111x hardware is really nice with very powerful and flexible features/peripherals. You basically get PIC32 performance at PIC16 prices - or less. The software is not as easy ...

Francis, are you using the parallel or serial interface?

There are 20+ Graphic OLED's here http://www.crystalfontz.com/products/index-oled.html

It wasn't too bad for me. The LPC1114 (32kB FLASH, 8kB RAM) board arrived today and I got the blinky going in about 10 minutes. I did play with the IDE and C compiler for a couple of hours while waiting for the hardware to arrive. Now on to putting a couple of 2x10 headers on the LPC board to hook i...