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Brought this book as a intro to the PIC18 (been using 16's for years), and in particular for the USB and CAN coverage.
While it gives a good intro to the PIC18, it spends too much time looking at demo/development boards and ICSP programming tools from various manufacturers, before arbitarily choosing to use MikroC and its own ICSP pod, no reasons given. Choosing to use Microchip's own MPLAB abd MPLAB C18 would have been a better choice, as the user could then use the low cost Pickit2 pod instead of one costing twice as much.
The sections covering USB and CAN failed to deliver the required information, and prefered to hide behind pre written functions specific to MikroC instead of explaining the requiste registers and how the are configured. The section covering RTOS is not worthy of being included in the title, again just skims the surface with no real substance.
Overall a waste of money.
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