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Hi all, I'm struggling to find a decent IDE to use with this board. I've tried MPLAB but it does not support direct programming to this board. What IDE's would you recommend for using with this board? I'm looking to program mainly in C, I have tried flowcode, it works really well, but I'm looking fo...

Are you trying to program it using Flowcode or using C code (with another programmer/IDE) ? If you're using Flowcode. - Select the LCD component - Set PORTB for the LCD connections (somewhere in the component properties) because LCD is connected to PORTB on the HP488 dev board - Use the init LCD fu...

Hi all,

I am currently using the HP488 dev board.
I'm struggling with the initialization of the LCD. If there's someone with an example of the LCD display in C, if you could send it to me, it'd be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Ryan

Thanks guys for the responses. After looking around some more I managed to find a solution to the problem at hand. It turns out that you have to use 4-bit mode to initialise the LCD as well. This is not the same as using 8-bit mode to initialise the LCD. The examples that I saw, and tutorials that I...

Hello, I'm new to using the PIC processor. I have just purchased the HP488 V3 board to get started on this chip. I have previous experience with the Renesas processors. I was just wondering, is there a manual for this board as I have not received anything useful with the board. I am struggling to ge...