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Creating New Project With MPLAB

This document provides instructions for creating a new project in MPLAB X IDE using a PIC16F877A microcontroller. It outlines 10 steps for setting up the project, including choosing an embedded standalone project, selecting the PIC16F877A chip, choosing a compiler, saving the project, and creating main.c and config.h files. The next tutorial will cover configuration bits and how to properly set them for the selected microcontroller.

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Creating New Project With MPLAB

This document provides instructions for creating a new project in MPLAB X IDE using a PIC16F877A microcontroller. It outlines 10 steps for setting up the project, including choosing an embedded standalone project, selecting the PIC16F877A chip, choosing a compiler, saving the project, and creating main.c and config.h files. The next tutorial will cover configuration bits and how to properly set them for the selected microcontroller.

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Creating New Project With

MPLAB
by Khaled Magdy · Published June 22, 2018 · Updated
June 24, 2018

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Creating New Project With MPLAB


Introductory Level ★☆☆☆☆

The IDE which we’ll be using for embedded systems


development with PIC MCUs is called MPLAB X IDE also a
product from Microchip which is so powerful and versatile.
However, it’s completely free to use and you can download
a suitable version for your operating system from the link
below.

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a new project in


MPLAB and how to add the basic code files. Just stick with
me through the following steps.

1.

The first step is to run the MPLAB IDE.exe file on your


desktop or whatever the installation path is.
2.

Head over to the File option in the menu bar at the top of
the screen. And choose to create a new project.
3.

Choose Embedded Standalone Project. Then Next.


4.

Choose the family of the MCU which is 8-bit Mid-range.


Then write the name of the chip in the box below which will
be PIC16F877A. Then Next.
Note
Just remember this step in which you’ve chosen the specific chip whic
project. I’ll give a justification for doing that so try to remember it as po

5.

Here you’ll choose the debugging hardware tool for your


project. I’m using PICkit3 so I’ll choose that one. However,
you can choose whatever you want as we’ll not use a
hardware debugging tool in these tutorials. Pick any
one then click Next.

6.
Choose the compiler for your project. We’ll be using XC8
compiler for our projects. Then Next.

Note
At this step, some of you might not find compilers in the options windo
problem which is installing XC8 before MPLAB IDE. The solution to this
XC8 and reinstall them again in the right order. MPLAB first, then XC8
7.

Choose the path to save your project into. And give your
project a relevant name. In the future, you’ll need to reuse
some of the code listings which you’ll be righting nowadays
so do yourself a favor and give them relevant names.
8.

Click Finish and you should see something like this screen
down below.

9.
Now, let’s create the file in which we’ll write our source C-
Code. Right-Click on the source files and choose to create a
new main.c file. And give it a relevant name.
It’s usually named as main.c
10.

The last step is to create a header file that will contain our
project’s configurations for the target PIC chip. The next
tutorial will show you in detail what exactly the configuration
bits are and how to properly set every single bit of them.
For now, we’ll just create the header file in preparation for
the next tutorial in which we’ll learn what are and how to set
the configuration bits.

Right-Click the header files and choose to create a header


file for XC8. And also give it a relevant name. I usually name
it as config.h which stands for the configurations file.
In the next tutorial, we’ll learn more about the configuration
bits (Fuses), how they work? how important are they? how
to properly set these bits? and how to use the GUI provided
by MPLAB to programmatically set these bits!

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