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Programmng differences between PIC and basic stamp?

grey_codegrey_code Posts: 3
edited 2005-01-19 16:14 in BASIC Stamp
Since the basic stamp has at it's heart a PIC microcontroller, how come the PIC needs a special programmer and the basic stamp doesn't? I mean does it have to do with the rest of the components on the basic stamp module?

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  • BeanBean Posts: 8,129
    edited 2005-01-19 14:18
    The basic stamp has a preprogrammed PIC that uses an external EEPROM to store your program. The PIC is programmed to read the serial data from the PC and store it into the EEPROM. An unprogrammed PIC basically does nothing, so you need some kind of programmer to program it.
    Bean.
  • Tom WalkerTom Walker Posts: 509
    edited 2005-01-19 16:14
    To add to Bean's post...

    "Programming" a BASIC Stamp may be a little bit of a misnomer. The PIC chip (the brain of the STAMP) is already programmed by the time you get it. It has a program in it that reads "tokens", compiled by and stored on the EEPROM by the IDE, more or less one at a time, and then acts on them. The PIC's program is the intellectual property of Parallax...as well it should be.

    (Yes, Jon...and Bruce...and Tracy...I know that this is a vast over-simplification...but sometimes simple is a good first step <g>)

    We now return you to our regularly-scheduled complexities...

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    Post Edited (Tom Walker) : 1/19/2005 4:22:02 PM GMT
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