Looking for pic chip recommendation for project Tia Sal

Greetings All,

First of all I would like to thank everyone that helped me with my question and pulsing lasers I've decided to dive into pic programming to do my pulsing of my 4mw lasers due to the control I have with programming in PIC.

I will be pulsing multiple pen laser (only 3 at this) in a sequence which will vary in time and duration can anyone recommend a good pic chip and the best way to get started in programming and what I might need?

This is what I will be doing with the pic chip to start off with

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PS: I have a programming background and an Electrical background

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I recommend that you start with the PIC18F series parts. Faster, cleaner memory model than the 16F parts, you have a variety of choices for programming them. If you are set on PIC as your device, check these items out: Microchip ICD-2 programmer/ICSP and ICD. A good all-around device. Microchip's C18 is a decent compiler, but at $400, you may find it pricey. The CCS C compiler PCH, is only $175 and integrates into MPLAB. Dontronics.com sells some good prototyping boards. The 28 pin PIC18F252 is a very popular chip for hobbyists, 32K Flash,

1.5K RAM, 2PWM, UART, etc. A good experimenter chip.

There are Basic compilers available too, and the MPLAB assembler is pretty decent as well.

have fun, DLC

: Greetings All,

: First of all I would like to thank everyone that helped me with my question and pulsing lasers : I've decided to dive into pic programming to do my pulsing of my 4mw lasers due to the : control I have with programming in PIC.

: I will be pulsing multiple pen laser (only 3 at this) in a sequence which will vary in time and duration : can anyone recommend a good pic chip and the best way to get started in programming and what I might need?

: This is what I will be doing with the pic chip to start off with

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: PS: I have a programming background and an Electrical background

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Dennis Clark

Staying on the cheap end, I recommend the 16F628. It has a horrible memory model and very little RAM, but it is cheap and comes witha built-in oscillator (that is relatively slow, but if you can deal with it, you need zero external components and have 16 out of 18 pins to play with)

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Matthias Melcher

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