Best recent compiler version for 18F2431 series

SteveS · Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 126

Hi all,

I've been away from PIC stuff for a bit but I have a new project that may use one of the 18F2431 series (for the quadrature input feature). I'm still back in V3.182 which doesn't support it. Any opinions on a more current, stable, version that does support it? Or have we gotten past the problems of each new version having it's new problems?

BTW, just finished some rework on old 8051 assembler code - I had forgotten how painful that was! Thank you CCS!

- SteveS

sseidman · Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 159

You just need to define a few registers. Search through my earlier posts, or try searching "quadrature". I've posted a coded snippet that uses all the relevant registers for the 2331, and that code works on the 2431.

Scott

ckielstra · Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 3680 Location: The Netherlands

The first few 3.20x versions were beta-versions, but the latest versions like 3.225 seem reasonable stable. I've never seen a program version without bugs, so sometimes it's better to stay with an old version and known bugs.

The main advantage of the 3.2xx versions over the 3.1xx versions is a 10% code size reduction for the PIC18.

SteveS · Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 126

Thanks to both of you!

sseidman - I have seen your posts and thanks for code! I've had to 'fix' my present version to handle things it didn't do, so I know it's not a big deal.

ckielstra - Know what you mean, I've stayed with my present version so long just because, to me, it's a known quantity - I know what to watch for. But it's probably time to move up.

- SteveS