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If it will be your first step in to micro-controller. First thing you should decide is what micro you will work with;
That will be influenced by availability of components (in your location), easiness coding, availability books and help like in edaboard; and prices of hardware and software.
Consider about PIC or Arduino based Atmel micros since they are the most popular in hobbyists.
First try some easier circuit and smaller uC. Try to make some LED clock, termometer or voltmeter.
Because You say, you are beginner in uC world, I suggest to have at least two uC programmers, you need programmers to program uC. One for PIC (Microchip) and second for AVR (Atmel). Making of thise two programmers can be DIY exercise and intro in this uC area. Of course if there is some extra floating money in yours pockets you can always buy some commercial programmer.
If you go for PIC, http://www.winpicprog.co.uk/pic_tutorial.htm
is one of the oldest but very good tutorial written for beginners in progressive manner.
MPLAB is a free IDE that you can use for assembly language programming of PIC;
You will need a debugger to debug your programs; for MPLAB environment you can easily build clones of ICD2 or Pickit2 debugger units. They can in-circuit-debug your programs; schematics and every info to build them are available on edaboard. Hence no need to spend on programming-software or debuggers.
three most basic and very useful microcontrollers are :
atmega by avr;
at89c51 by atmel; and
pic by microchip.
use books written by MUHAMMAD ALI MAZIDI on whatever microcontroller you select.
books named as:
PIC MICROCONTROLLER AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS USING ASSEMBLY AND C
OR
AVR MICROCONTROLLER AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS USING ASSEMBLY AND C
OR
8051 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX C
GOOD LUCK:idea:
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AVR MICROCONTROLLER IS BEST TO LEARN AMONG ALL. BECAUSE ITS COMPILER IS EASILY AVAILABLE NAMED: AVR STUDIO 5.0 (LATEST).
i used to work on avr atmega32 while my graduation project.
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AVR MICROCONTROLLER IS BEST TO LEARN AMONG ALL. BECAUSE ITS COMPILER IS EASILY AVAILABLE NAMED: AVR STUDIO 5.0 (LATEST).
i used to work on avr atmega32 while my graduation project.
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But there are no debuggers that we can easily build. And debuggers for AVR are expensive. Debugger is a very useful tool for a beginner; But for PICs there are several of clones of debuggers that can be built easily.
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