Anyone here worked with Microchip's PIC Microcontrollers?

[Zia Ur Rehman]

Hi there!
Does anyone here has a job or interest/hobby related to embedded systems which include Microchip's PIC microcontrollers? Just wondering.

[Computergeek01]

Is "Microchip" a company? I used to play around with robotics. What is it you want to know?

[ultifinitus]

I've done some AVR stuff, nothing with PICs though.

[sohguanh]

I believe embedded systems development is a pretty specialized field and the numbers of ppl in this discipline are small in comparison to business application/infrastructure building developers world-wide.

If you intend to focus on embedded systems development, is it using some proprietary system? Are there Open Source embedded systems? I would also presume embedded systems is tied very closely to the hardware you are going to let the embedded software run in isn't it?

I am also curious on this matter also.

[Computergeek01]

@ sohguanh: From my experiance the company that makes the controller usually gives you some DLL's to start off with. I didn't get too far into it but I know that Microsoft has a Robotics SDK that might be pretty universal, otherwise it had a very proprietary feel to it.

[z05DSL3A]

I have done some PIC programming in the past with C (Hi-Tech C http://www.htsoft.com/) It was a long time ago and only a couple of projects.

Computergeek01 wrote:

What is it you want to know?