This work provides a comprehensive introduction to the PIC family of microcontrollers. It begins with the basics of the PIC chip, and then demonstrates how PIC microcontrollers are architected, programmed and interfaced with the outside world. The book introduces the reader to microprocessor concepts common to all families of microcontrollers and demonstrates how to determine which microcontroller is most suitable. It also contains more than 30 experiments and 12 complete projects demonstrating various PIC applications. An accompanying diskette provides the software tools needed to programme PIC applications on either DOS or Windows PCs.