Lab Notes 7 Mechatronics Lecture Notes

PIC16F877: ADC Module by Dr. Can U. Dogruer

Hacettepe University / Mechanical Engineering Department
Automotive Engineering Program L7-1
L7. PIC16F877:ADC MODULE
Objectives
1. Configure ADC
PART LIST
NO PART NAME QUANTITY
1 PIC16F877 / PIC16F877A 1
2 Push Button 1
3 10K Resistor 9
6 Potentiometer 1
7 MAX232 1
8 1-micro Farad Polarized Capacitor 5
9 RS-232 Connector 1
0 RS-232 Cable 1
1 20 MHz Crystal 1
2 22-picoFarad Capacitor 2
3 Copper Wire 2 meter
4 USB PIC Programmer [Hardware] 1
5 PIC Downloader Program [Bootloader; Software] 1

NOTE: Study ADC library of mikroC and read the relevant pages of PIC16877A about ADC and learn how to
configure ADC module of PIC16F877. Read also the mikroC web book whose address is given in the web page of
the lecture
L6.1 EXPERIMENT V: DC Motor Interfacing
In this experiment you will read the analog voltage from PORTA channel 0. The analog voltage is supplied by a
potentiometer. As you change the variable resistance the voltage that is applied to PORTA channel 0 will change.
The ADC module of the PIC16F877 will convert the input voltage to an integer number between 0 and 1024. Notice
that the ADC module of the PIC 16F877 is a 10-bit module, so the there are 2
N=10
=1024 binary number to represent
the input voltage range. In this experiment we fix the input voltage range to 0-5V. If we want to compute
quantization size (or resolution) of the ADC module
1

=
I
mux
-I
mux
2
N
-1

=
S - u
2
10
- 1
= 4.8876 1u
-3

The output of ADC module is a 10-bit binary number, and we will display this binary number on three LEDS
connected to PORTB (pin 0-2). In order to display the most significant three bits of the output of ADC module, we

1
Read the relevant pages of PIC16F877 how to configure pins of PORTA as analog pin and how to fix the
input voltage range. ADCON1 is the special function register that controls these properties of ADC module of
PIC16F877.
Lab Notes 7 Mechatronics Lecture Notes
PIC16F877: ADC Module by Dr. Can U. Dogruer
Hacettepe University / Mechanical Engineering Department
Automotive Engineering Program L7-2
make a simple trick; we use shift operate >>. Shift operator >> shifts the digits of binary number to right and
replaces the most significant bits with zero, for example
Temp1=1010101111
Temp2=Temp>>4
Temp2=0000101010
Temp2=Temp>>7
Temp2=0000000101
After we use the shift operator on the output of ADC module we use the following command to assign this number
to PORTB
PORTB= temp_res>>7;



















Lab Notes 7 Mechatronics Lecture Notes
PIC16F877: ADC Module by Dr. Can U. Dogruer
Hacettepe University / Mechanical Engineering Department
Automotive Engineering Program L7-3
SAMPLE CODE
unsigned int temp_res;
void main() {
ADCON1=0x00;
TRISA = 0xFF; // All port A pins are configured as inputs
TRISB=0x00;
PORTB=0x00;
do {
temp_res = ADC_Read(0); // Result of A/D conversion is copied to temp_res
PORTB= temp_res>>7;
} while(1); // Endless loop
}

void interrupt() { }