Amicus18 Beginner Guides

With a 64Mhz PIC (18F25K20) at the core, the Amicus18 is an embedded system platform based on a simple open hardware design for a single-board microcontroller, with embedded I/O support and a standard programming language.

Developers can use any programming language they wish. Schematics, bootloader and comprehensive supporting documentation is all FREE and OPEN SOURCE.

See the Amicus18 Review for more information.

Amicus18 Goes Global +

One, two, skip a few - welcome to world wide distribution of the Amicus18! The guys at Crownhill have managed to stock the Amicus product range with Farnell. That's a big leap forward in the scheme of things, and for me it shows the commitment behind Amicus, from software right through to hardware. UK...

Author: Graham

18F25K20 Overview +

18F25K20 Overview

I've only recently received an Amicus18 Board, and wanted to venture into the Amicus IDE and explore what features there are (more about those in another article). For those that didn't know - The Amicus IDE is actually a 100% working free version of the powerful Proton PDS compiler. There is a caveat - the compiler will only produce code for the 18F25K20. With that in mind, its probably a good time to get familiar with the 18F25K20. 32K Bytes...

Author: Graham

Introducing The Amicus18 +

Introducing The Amicus18

Packing a 64Mhz PIC (18F25K20), the Amicus18 is an embedded system platform based on a simple open hardware design for a single-board microcontroller, with embedded I/O support and a standard programming language. The Amicus18 board communicates with a personal computer via a USB interface, which presents itself as a standard serial port on the PC. It can be programmed...

Author: Graham

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Persistence of vision light show - be80be Wednesday, 08 September 2010 22:52 - [7 replies]
AND-ing two bytes - graham Wednesday, 08 September 2010 04:52 - [16 replies]
Big GPS Clock - graham Wednesday, 08 September 2010 04:29 - [25 replies]
Don't have a max232 and need one look here - be80be Tuesday, 07 September 2010 23:06 - [3 replies]
ADC Hysteresis? - mmclaren Tuesday, 07 September 2010 16:15 - [5 replies]
spedoometer with 3310 lcd - tahirmaqsood Tuesday, 07 September 2010 01:13 - [0 replies]

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