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MPLab to Program the PSLab   MPLab© X IDE Microchip® is a famous company for PIC® microcontroller manufacturing. This American based company produces a variety of electronic components ranging from basic microcontrollers, EEPROMs, SRAMs, RF devices and many more. In the PSLab device by FossAsia, we use a PIC24EP256GP204 who's data sheet can be found from here . Apart from the high performing micro controllers, Microchip provides a powerful IDE to program these devices. This IDE is based on NetBeans IDE. The programming language is consists of C++ syntaxes and we can embed assembly commands like 'nop' to simplify the code. Documentation and guidelines on how to use this great IDE is available on their official web site . Here we're going to see how to install this in an Ubuntu 16.04 64bit PC. Installing MPLab© X IDE Step I To install this software, first we have to download the tar ball containing the installer. The latest version can be found from the...

2017 - June - 03 What did I do yesterday? After a previous PR of UART.c got merged, there were merge conflicts in every other PR made after that. I tried to resolve them on Github editor but it was getting messy because they are all heavily correlated. So I closed the conflicted PRs to open them again with fixes. Opened up an issue #21 to fix the project tree and made a PR on #22 Reviewed #141 in pslab-android Started separating ADC functions Discussed about the hardware modifications I did on pslab-hardware and made the necessary changes Discussed about navigation views in "Applications" view mock-up What do I plan to do today? I am going to fix all the merge conflicted files and send clean PRs to I2C, SPI, NRF and ADC to fix #14 , #15 , #16 , ...