Overview
TRACKSOFT South Africa now offers local and International students the opportunity to study the PIC Micro-controller at their own convenience.
This power course is packed with basics and applications to a complex level.
The intended audience is aimed at one of an Electronics and Logics background.
You will have 6-Months in which to complete all your homework tasks, and to submit them.
Extensions will only be granted on the basis that the student has completed at least 4 homework tasks.
Correspondence Course Items may be purchased seperately. The items are:
- PICSTART Plus Programmer
- Lesson 1 to Lesson 8 Course Manual
- Lesson 1 to Lesson 8 Component Set
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Homework submission
Students may submit homework tasks via one of the following media:
e-mail mail addresses included in the course notes
by fax
postal services - takes the longest!
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Material Obtainable Separately
The student may order any of the following material shipped via courier services worldwide:
PICSTART-PLUS Programmer complete with Application software CD-ROM and Component Data Sheets.
Complete set of course notes
A COMPLETE kit of components needed for ALL the practicals as mentioned under course contents.
The student will not have to purchase any additional components when ordering the component kit, for the practical exercises. This means that the student will be fully equipped to Program and build all the practical applications as specified in the course contents.
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Course Contents
Basic number systems and Arithmetic
Device discussions and selection
Architecture
Memory organization and paging
Direct and Indirect addressing techniques
I/O programming considerations
Look-up tables
Multiplexing techniques
Driving Seven Segment Displays
Reading from a keypad
Reading and writing to the on-board EEPROM
-Favourite- Driving LCD (Liquid crystal displays)in 4-bit and 8-bit mode
-Favourite- Writing your own usable characters to the Liquid Crystal Display
Mathematical routines including BCD converters, Multiplication routines, and Division routines.
The USART and Serial RS-232 communications (Establish communications to and from your PC via the RS-232 serial port)
View of the PICSTART Plus Programmer from Microchip.
The PICSTART Plus Programmer is a low cost development tool from Microchip.
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Course Pricing
The course item prices are located below and may be ordered separately. Prices may fluctuate due to the Rand Value. Postage and Packaging not included.
South African students add R85.00 for Postage and Packaging.
ITEMS
PICSTART Plus Programmer price ZAR 2350.00
Lesson 1 to Lesson 8 Course Manual price ZAR 1650.00
Lesson 1 to Lesson 8 Component Set price ZAR 620.00
Use the currency converter below to calculate in your own currency (only as a guide):
For any further questions or comments, or if you would like to order, please send us an email from our e-mail facility or contact us on the telephone numbers on our homepage
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Tracksoft - South Africa - PIC Microcontroller courses - your gateway to embedded development competence!
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