4.4 Summary

The microcontroller project development cycle has been explained in this chapter. In addition, the features of some of the commonly used microcontroller development boards have been described. Display development tools help the programmers to easily develop display based applications. These tools are described briefly in this chapter. Some of the projects in this book are based on using the EasyPIC7 microcontroller development board. An example use of this board is given where the on-board in-circuit debugger is used to step through a program loaded into the on-board microcontroller.