Week 5

Activity: Installation of MPLAB IDE and Hi-Tech PICC Lite

Objective(s): 

1. To install the MPLAB IDE editor software in our laptop.
2. To install Hi-Tech PICC Lite compiler software in our laptop.

Contents:

Briefly, MPLAB Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a comprehensive editor, project manager and design desktop for application development of embedded designs using PIC microcontrollers. Whilst, Hi-Tech software is the third party compilers for PIC10/12/16 and PIC18, dsPIC, PIC24 and PIC32 devices. As for this project, the type of PIC that we are using is the PIC16.

The installation steps:

1. Double click on the Setup Launcher to install MPLAB V8.20a. 

2. The InstallShield Wizard will pop out 

3. After all the directions shown in the welcome note (as in following diagram) is done, click Next> for next step. 

 4. Select I accept the terms of the license agreement if it is not selected in the diagram, and click Next> after this. 

5. Select Complete for the setup type to install all program features, and click Next> to next step. 

6. Choose Destination Location, user is recommended to use the default destination folder, which is C:\Program Files\Microchip\ or user is also free to select the other destination folder by using the Browse... button to browse to the desired destination folder. After that, click Next> for next step. 

7. Select I accept the terms of the license agreement if it is not selected in the diagram, and click Next> after this. 

 

8. Select I accept the terms of the license agreement again for the window shown, and click Next> after this. 

9. Please click Next> for the diagram. 

10. Wait for awhile for the installation process shown in diagram. 

11. A window will pop out if there is any program that did not close at the beginning of the installation, user is recommended to close the entire unnecessary program and click Retry to proceed on the installation. User may also click on Ignore if you need to run the other program concurrently. For this example, Ignore is clicked. 

12. Wait for the installation process to be completed. 

13. A window for Question will pop out, please click OK to proceed with installation of HI-TECH C.. 

14. Please wait for the installation process to be completed. 

15. Please click Finish after successfully installed the HI-TECH C PRO. 

16. The installation of MPLAB V8.20a is completed. Please click Finish to exit. User may need to restart the computer just after the installation or restart later. 

17. After restart computer, a window MPLAB IDE Document Select will pop out, user may view the release notes from Microchip if want to. 

Result/Analysis:
The MPLAB IDE application appeared as in the diagram below and is ready to be used.

The MPLAB IDE will show as in diagram, user may start build your own project.

Conclusion: 
In conclusion, MPLAB IDE will be the platform for us to write the programming using the C language that we have learnt during our earliest semester and Hi-Tech PICC Lite will help us to build the program that we will be writing soon. Finally, the programming softwares are successfully installed in our personal computer.