12f675_fuse_about_to_blow!

[mackrackit]

You are still some what south...

MPLAB or MCS will work. So will a simple text editor. For writing code that is. I find myself using gEdit or EMACS more often than not.

Once the code is written the compiler/assembler can then be ran.

Do you remember *.bat files??

[LEDave]

Do you remember *.bat files??

Yes, Batch files, small text file program commands... cmd.exe.

[mackrackit]

Here is the guts of a BAT

cd
cd C:\MAC\PIC_PROGS\PPPBP\test_prog\
PBPL -e -ampasmwin -p18F4550 test.bas
cd\

It is just the command line stuff that the manual talks about. It is really nice having the command line option for PBP.

[LEDave]

Hi mackrackit,

I had a read of the manual dinner time today (right at the beginning).

So what we're saying here is that you can use most text editors to write the code and then 'invoke' the compiler to then create the HEX file and away you go.

Dave

[mackrackit]

Yes.

I do like text editors with syntax highlighting but even windows notepad will work. If I remember correctly that is what Melanie uses, just plain 'ol notepad.

[LEDave]

If I remember correctly that is what Melanie uses, just plain 'ol notepad.

Goes to show then...........

Dave

Ah, almost forgot, the Badger re-appeared last night I'm very pleased to say.

[LEDave]

Below is a part of a simple little program I've been experimenting with to generate a 'random' pause but of known maximum and minimum time period(average maximum wait about 12secs for the LED to flash as the program stands).

The pause occurs randomly but because there are a maximum of 65535 'lenghts' if you will of a given time (be it clock cycles etc (I'm not sure how RANDOM works) it should be possible to my mind to work out how long the longest and shortest pause times will be when they occur (1 or 65535 lenghts) I think.

So my question is this: How long does it take the PIC processor to calculate 1 lenght? At the moment the maximum and minimum pause times occur at 12secs max 1sec min.

I hope this makes sense

X VAR WORD

main:
RANDOM x

PAUSE X /4

HIGH PORTA.2 
PAUSE 1000
low PORTA.2
GOTO MAIN:

Dave