Interface 16x2 LCD to a PIC microcontroller using C

Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are more convenient ways of displaying output results in any microcontroller based projects. If you are new to microcontroller interfacing, and want to learn how to interface a LCD to a PIC microcontroller you need to look at this. Here you will find PIC16F628A interfacing with a 16x2 LCD display and the programming is done in mikroC.

The objective of this experiment is to interface a 16x2 LCD to PIC16F628A in 4-bit mode. This means the data transfer

will use only four pins of the microcontroller. There is no additional hardware setup needed for this experiment, as we have a ready-made LCD interface female ......
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PIC16F84A Tutorial Board

Source: http://www.electronics-lab.com/projects/mcu/001/index.html

The PIC16C84 was introduced in 1993 by Microchip and the first PIC microcontroller to feature a serial programming algorithm and EEPROM memory, both of which lend themselves to hobby use: only a simple and cheap programmer is required to program, erase and reprogram the chip. PIC16F84 is a flash version of PIC16C84.

Since then Microchip has released much advanced PIC microcontrollers but this is still very popular among hobbyists. One reason for this is that there are lots of resources available on it and some good books published on PIC16F84. If you are looking to learn PIC microcontrollers, this could be a good choice. You can make your own tutorial board and do experiments.
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