{"id":1597,"date":"2020-07-22T13:33:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T12:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kanda.com\/blog\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2020-07-22T13:33:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T12:33:16","slug":"kanda-pic-training-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kanda.com\/blog\/microcontrollers\/kanda-pic-training-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanda PIC training kits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Kanda have been making kits to teach you how to write code for and program PIC microcontrollers for 25 years. These kits have had many updates as available tools and software have been updated. This post is a guide to selecting the kit you need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
All our PIC training tools and starter kits now use Microchip MPLAB X <\/strong>development environment rather than earlier versions, such as 8.7. They also use MPASM assembler<\/strong> and XC8 C compiler<\/strong> as the tool chain. XC8 is supplied directly by Microchip and is a much better compiler than the third party versions that were available previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The kits all include tutorials, books and sample code to get you going from scratch. The tutorials start with basic concepts, like logic, numbering systems and PIC instruction set and go on to using MPLAB X and debugger. Sample projects cover all the hardware available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As well as the development environment, assembler and compiler, Kanda training kits all include a genuine Microchip debugger and programmer. The first of these was PICKit and this has evolved via PICKit 2 and 3 to the latest PICit 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n