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Hello all,

I made few projects with pic 12 series and all are good.
Now I'm triing to interface pic 16F877 to lcd 16X2 v.2.0. I cant start it, can somebody help help me.
It is just simple project with lcd and one led blinking.
Schematics in proteus and flowcode project is in attachment.

Thank you in advance.

Hi dedajozo,
There should be two caps connected to the crystal: In the real world you will also require a pull-up resistor from MCLR (pin 1 16F877) to +supply.
I would do that via a 10K resistor.

Martin

Thx Martin,

I wil try that.

Thank you again Martin, it works fine.

I tried to put lm35 temperature sensor on same program. On proteus simulator everything works fine but in the real world the temperature on display varies a lot, on the lm35 out I have stable voltage,
Any suggestions.

thx

Hello,

In the ADC component properties try changing the conversion speed to FOSC/8 or /32 and aquisition cycles can probably be a bit lower, say 10 or 20.

Hopefully this will improve things.

Hello,

i tried to change properties and also I replaced pic with 16F877a but same thing .

Maybe placing a cap 100nF - 10uF on the power rails near the LM35 would help. The LM35 datasheet may have more info on what the sensor needs.

A pF/nF cap between the analogue pin and ground can also act as a low pass filter if you want to get rid of some excess ripple.

Does the analogue signal run near to any potentially noisy or high frequency digital traces?

Everything is on experimental board, maybe there is some noise. What do you think is it problem with crystal? Voltage on pic pin from lm is ok and stable it seams that pic is making confusion. Also crystal is 10 mhz I think. On crystal writes 10.0M440.

Hello,

the solution for my project is voltage regulator 7805. Everything works fine fine without variations.

thx