There are a lot of posts to trawl through in this blog if you’ve not followed it from the beginning. Hopefully this summary makes everything a bit clearer…
The first thing I did was to have a look at other cat tracking products on the market. I found that they all have a big flaw… battery life. I wanted GPS level accuracy and a battery life measured in months. Nothing on the market offered that, so it was down to me to design it!
Now that I’ve got CatTrack working, I’ve been having a look at refining the code. As I previously mentioned, I am using the CCS C compiler, basically because the ‘paid for’ version of their compiler is significantly cheaper than Microchip’s XC8 ‘paid-for’ version. I did begin to wonder though, just how much bigger would my code be, and how much slower would it run if I used the free version of Microchip’s XC8 compiler?
This is what the Memory usage currently looks like in the PIC16LF18345, compiled with CCS C:
Continue Reading “Comparing compilers: CCS C and Microchip XC8”
The time has finally arrived, let’s test CatTrack on Buttons.
It doesn’t seem to bother him anyway!
