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PIC Press is a development environment for PIC programs, designed to assist you in writing your program every step of the way.

PIC Press is a beginners guide to the PIC microprocessor. The help files associated with the software will give the user an excellent introduction to the PIC, taking the place of many of the textbooks available.

PIC Press is a collection of datasheets for different PIC types. Much of the information present in datasheets has been summarised in the software in various guises. For example the bit arrangement for the Special Function Registers is present through the Number-Into-SFR macro. The size and layout of the RAM can be seen through the Memory Map, and the number of inputs and outputs available are also built into the working of the software.

How do I write a program using PIC Press?

1. Select New - Start New Program, and you will be guided through a series of questions regarding your PIC project. You will be asked, for example, what PIC you will be using. This information is used throughout the writing process by the software, ensuring you are only able to use the features relevant to that particular PIC.
2. With this information, the PIC generates the bones of the program. All the program layout, and initialization is done for you, and you are left with the task of filling in the flesh of the program.
3. Colour coding of the program you write makes it easier to understand, as well as showing you errors (which appear in red) as you type them. Specific error messages help you find you exactly what you have done wrong, and further assistance with errors suggests possible mistakes which may have led to particular errors.
4. An autocue informs you of the syntax for each instruction as you type it, and then when you have finished typing a line, will inform you of what the line does in real English.
5. A suite of macros can also be used to make the program writing faster. At the click of a button, a EEPROM write routine can be inserted, or perhaps a 5 second delay.
6. After you have finished writing the program, you can save the object file (the assembled program), assuming there are no errors.
7. In short, PIC Press makes it quick and easy to write programs, whilst making difficult to write programs with mistakes.

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