Integrated Circuits (2)

The 'Stamp' is a programable microcontroller, they can be programmed via a special editor- to perform specific tasks. The best way to use stamps is to buy a development kit, this will come with the stamp IC itself, a PC program with a link cables so that you can program the stamp via your PC and all the instructions you will need for programming and integrating the IC into your circuit. The basic stamp 2 has 16 outputs and can be programmed with a BASIC language interpreter. Any details that you may need on the BASIC stamp will be found in the instruction booklet for the the development pack, or you can check out parallaxes website.

The PIC Microcontoller is one of the leading 8 bit microcontrollers available to the engineer. Its simplicity and versatility make it suitable for a wide range of digital and control functions, ranging from basic combinational logic to motor and lighting control and other non-trivial operations. Programming in assembler offers complete control to the designer both in terms of data handling and timing operations, and being a RISC processors the instruction set is easy to learn with only 35 instructions. Programs can be quickly transferred from one PIC variant to another with only minor changes. Specs: · Operating Speed: DC - 10 MHz clock input DC - 400 ns instruction cycle · 1024 x 14 on-chip EPROM program memory · 36 x 8 general purpose registers (SRAM) · 15 special function hardware registers · 64 x 8 EEPROM data memory · CMOS technology. Wide operating voltage range: 2.0V to 6.0V