As I have suggested in the book's text, you should spend a few minutes going through the the html "pages" contained on the CD-ROM to familiarize yourself with the material and features that are in this book. Once you are comfortable what is on the CD-ROM, I suggest you follow the steps listed here for installing the tools and applications onto your PC/Workstation. If you are working with a Windows/NT or Windows/2000 PC, you will need "Administrator" access to carry out the requested actions.
- The first order of business is to install a software development system. In Development Tools, I have included three different development tools that you can use. For Microosft "Windows" users, I recommend installing the MPLAB Integrated Development Environment which can be installed by clicking Here. When MPLAB installs, it will ask you to specify the options you are going to be working with. You may want to just install them "all" for simplicity. For MPLINK, I recommend creating the "lkr" subdirectory to avoid making the "MPLAB" subdirectory too complex with too many confusing part number files.
- Windows Users should next install "Port95NT" software which will give you I/O port access. This access is required to use the El Cheapo programmer with your PC and will load the correct drivers for NT or Windows/95/98 software as appropriate. The PORT95.exe application can be distributed, but it cannot be modified in any way.
- Next, you should install and enable your programmer software. If you are using a PICSTART Plus programmer or other Micrchip tool, then the appropriate drivers will have been automatically installed when you installed the MPLAB IDE. For people using the El Cheapo, click Here to look at installing the software and testing/assembling the application.
- Last, the source files should be loaded onto your PC's hardfile. These files should be installed into a "PICmicro" directory. Click Here to automatically install the application code onto your "C:" drive. If you want to install the files onto another drive, or are reinstalling the source files, look Here for instructions to copy them manually.
Once you have the development tools installed, the programmer enabled and software installed and the application code copied onto your hardfile, you can now start working through the Experiments presented in this book.
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