This chapter, like its predecessor, focuses both in hardware and software related to PIC microcontrollers. In the second part, we made an attempt to blink one LED through a PIC microcontroller ...

Arithmetic logic unit (ALU), which performs computation. Registers needed for the basic operation of the CPU, such as the program counter (PC), stack pointer (SP), and status register (SR). Further ...

Install Atmel Studio. Be sure to enable the "8-bit microcontroller" features. You don't need the 32-bit or ARM features for this class.

The Arduino IDE runs on Mac, which may be a desired feature. You can still follow along with these bare-metal C examples. Arduino calls their code blocks a "sketch". Your normal Arduino sketch has a ...