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MicroEngineering Labs PICBASIC
PRO (PBP) is the industry standard BASIC programming language for Microchip's
PIC®
microcontrollers. No other BASIC compiler for PIC®
MCUs boasts the 15-year success in both commercial and non-commercial
environments. Version 3 is a major evolution of this popular product, making it
even more capable, stable, and reliable. All the years of development culminate
here, with many new capabilities and improvements. Come see why thousands of
engineers, educators and hobbyists have depended on PBP for more than a decade.
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PBP is a BASIC programming
language for Microchip's PIC® microcontrollers. It has evolved over the span of
15 years, making it the industry standard in its field. It has become a
professional-level development tool for embedded programmers, though it
retains the easy-to-learn syntax that makes it popular among experimenters and
educators worldwide. PBP should not be confused
with the slow BASIC interpreters of the past. This is a full-blown development
tool that produces code in the same manner as a C compiler (without the pain
of C). PBP is widely used by engineering professionals who depend on its
stability and maturity to produce commercial firmware. It is also used by
educational institutions because it is very easy to learn and understand.
Please note that we
bundle
MicroCode Studio PLUS with this compiler, which
would normally cost an extra £29.95!
PBP software is now delivered electronically.
This means you receive your compiler quickly, without having to incur delivery
costs. However, we can supply a physical manual with your purchase if required.
PBP
| The PICBasic Pro compiler can operate as a command line application or from within Microsoft Windows. Mecanique supply PICBasic Pro with
MicroCode Studio Plus, a powerful, visual Integrated Development Environment (IDE) which include an In Circuit Debugger (ICD), that has been specifically designed for PICBasic PRO.
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The development environment also includes a MicroCode Loader. The loader software enables you to program your microcontroller over a serial connection without the need of a hardware programmer.
The MicroCode Studio Plus ICD can really help accelerate program development. It's also a lot of fun and a great tool for learning more about programming PIC microcontrollers.
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Experimenter Edition |
Silver Edition |
Gold Edition |
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Commercial License |
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Number of Installations
Allowed |
1 |
3 |
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Supported Microcontrollers
(click
here for full list) |
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28-Pin 16F886, 18F2550,
18F25J20, 18F25K22 |
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Microchip Mid-Range
Architecture
(most PIC16, PIC12) |
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Enhanced Mid-Range
Architecture
(PIC16F1xxx, PIC12f1xxx) |
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Baseline Architecture
(devices using 12-bit instruction set) |
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High Performance
Architecture
(PIC18) |
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Maximum supported clock
frequency |
64MHz |
20MHz |
64MHz |
32-bit LONG variables,
signed integer math
(requires PIC18 device) |
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Device Packages supported |
28-Pin |
8-Pin through
64-Pin |
6-Pin through
100-pin |
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MicroEngineering Labs
Technical Support via telephone and direct email |
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Technical Support via online
forum |
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1-Year Free Upgrades |
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A full list of supported
devices can be found
here.
PBP is a mature BASIC compiler for Microchip's PIC microcontrollers. Its
licensed user base of 10,000+ is composed mostly of engineers and companies.
It is intended to be a professional development tool, though its painless
syntax also makes it a favourite among hobbyists and institutions of learning.
PBP generates Assembly language that consists of hand-tuned macros and library
routines. This laborious approach in development makes for extreme efficiency
in handling operations with a variety of variable types. Each math and
comparison operation is generated according to the specific variable types
that are used as inputs and output. High-level commands are included as
library routines that are reused to minimize code space consumption, and these
routines are tuned based on the device's memory characteristics and selected
oscillator frequency.
The code that PBP generates is efficient and optimized. Execution speed
rivals that of any C compiler (for PIC MCUs) on the market. You don't
have to compromise product performance in order to save time in development.
You can have both. PBP does not use a software stack. This speeds execution of
subroutine calls and limits PBP programming to a single, global namespace. All
variables are globally accessible and care should be taken not to 'step on'
critical values in subroutines and interrupt handlers. PBP uses the hardware
stack for GOSUB and interrupts. The depth of the stack imposes limits on
nested subroutines.
Unless specifically noted,
PBP commands don't consume internal resources like timer modules. Our timed
pauses are software-based and none of our loop structures touch the hardware
stack. The peripheral modules are free for the developer to use when needed.
Each supported device is mapped thoroughly in the PBP device files. PBP
handles all RAM-bank and code-page switching, inserting code only when needed
for the target device. All internal registers are known to PBP by name. This
allows Direct Register Access with BASIC statements like "T1CON = 0", without
the requirement of pre-defining the location of the register.
- Familiar BASIC syntax
- IF (condition) THEN /
ELSE / ELSEIF /ENDIF
- SELECT CASE
- FOR… NEXT
- DO WHILE/UNTIL
- Direct Register Access
- All Special Function
Registers are pre-mapped by PBP and accessible by name
- Built-In Commands for
operations common to embedded development
- Accurate Delays in uS
and mS resolutions
- Analog to Digital
Conversion
- Asynchronous Serial
Communications (RS-232, RS-485, etc)
- Synchronous Serial
including I2C and SPI
- Character LCD
- PWM
- USB
- Parsing and Formatting
of ASCII Strings
- Sinusoidal Frequency
Generation and DTMF (requires hardware filtering)
- Pulse-Width Measurement
- Low-Power Mode
- Conditional Compilation
with Command-Line Constants
- In-Line Assembly Language
- Easy Device Configuration
- Configuration settings
listed for each supported device
- New #CONFIG directive
eliminates the need to edit header files
- Interrupts in BASIC or
Assembly Language
- Newly revised and
expanded, 300+ page reference manual.
- MPLAB/MPLABX compatible.
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MicroEngineering
Labs technical support via
telephone, email, and community forum (phone and email support not available
for Experimenter Edition.)
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