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Chapter 1: Introduction
* 1.1 The basic concepts of the programming language Pascal
* 1.2 Keywords
* 1.3 Architecture of the microcontroller
* 1.4 Abreviations
1.1 The basic concepts of the programming language Pascal
All examples presented in this book rely on the programming language Pascal and its application in the mikroPascal compiler for dsPIC. It is thus necessary to introduce some of the concepts, modes of their applications, and their meanings in order to facilitate understaning of the abundant examples contained by the book. The simplest structures of Pascal are used, so the examples can be understood with no need for an analysis of the programming language.
NOTE: In this chapter no complete Pascal language used by the compiler has been presented, but only some of the methods of declaring types and some of the key words often used in the examples. The reader is referred to the help-system accompanying the mikroPascal compiler for a detailed study of the possibilities of the Pascal language and its application in programming the microcontrollers of the family dsPIC30F.
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