Documentation::Creating a new project

To create a new project with wizard is easy, just follow these three simple steps. Although it may seem a bit confusing if you are only playing with the program. It is highly advisable to plan your project, what components you need and how the should be connected, before trying to set up a project.

If you only want to simulate your PIC 16F84 microcontroller program, set up a simple project only consisting of the PIC 16F84 and no connections are needed.


In the example above, a project called MyProject is created

Create a project - Step 1/3
The first step only consist of the specifying the project name. Enter the project name and click next.



In the example above two components have been added,
Push buttons and a LED array

Adding components - Step 2/3
In the second part of wizard you have to add components needed in your project.

  1. Choose the compontent you want to add from the pull down box (combo box)
  2. Press Add when correct compontent is selected
  3. When all needed components are added, click Next

To remove an undesired compontent, select it in the list and click Remove.

Note
When adding the PIC 16F84 Microcontroller component, a choose file dialog appears. Depending on your system it sometimes takes a few seconds before the dialog appear. Select the PIC16F84 source code file you want to use in your project. If you are starting from scratch, selected the directory where you want the source file and specify the filename.



Above have two connections been made. The first connection goes
from the first button to PIC 16F84's RA0 pin. The second connection
is from the PIC 16F84's RB0 pin to the first LED in the LED Array.

Connecting components - Step 3/3
The last part of wizard consist of making connections between components. Now it comes handy if you have made drawing how compontents should be connected.

  1. Selected the component that sends out the signal
  2. Selected the desired pin on the sending component.
  3. Selected the component that receives the signal
  4. Selected the pin on receiving component.

To remove an undesired connection, select it in the list and click Remove.

When all connections are made, click Finish. A Save Project as dialog will appear. It it suggested that you save your project in the projects folder, otherwhise it will not appear in the opening dialog list. If you of some reason (e.g. write permissions) want to save it elsewhere, specify desired path and filename.