What do I need from a Microcontroller?
As my Windows 7 laptop has been acting up lately, I will be using Linux. While everything might not be as neatly packaged as might happen on Windows, Linux should have all the necessary packages I need. Currently I run Fedora 12. My development environment is Eclipse. There is a collection of tools for the Micrchip PIC called gputils, gpsim, and ktechlab. Both gputils and gpsim are run from the command line. Ktechlab includes gpsim functionality. Piklab is an IDE that uses gputils and gpsim. The only problem is all of these programs are in alpha and beta. I have been rather impressed with linux software to date, so I will give them a try.
http://gputils.sourceforge.net/
http://gpsim.sourceforge.net/
http://www.eclipse.org/
http://www.microchip.com/
A way of serially programming the PIC is using picprog. They also describe the hardware necessary to connect the two. This is also run from the command line.
http://hyvatti.iki.fi/~jaakko/pic/picprog.html
I decided to use the 16 Bit Core size, which knocks Digikey down to 25 pages from more than 100. I am choosing Microchip, a PIC core processor, 40 MIPs speed. There is still so much to choose from.
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