HI-TECH®  Software is pleased to announce the release of a totally free ANSI C compiler to support selected Microchip®  devices. The HI-TECH®  PICC Lite compiler is a freeware version of our industrial-strength PICC compiler and supports the 16F877, 16F877A, 12F675, 12F629, 16F627, 16C84, 16F84 and 16F84A devices.

Differences from the full versions are: there is no source code supplied for the library routines; the compiler comes with no printf() support for longs or floats; two ram banks of the 16F627, 16F877, 16F877A are supported for general purpose ram; Code size for the 16F877 and 16F877A is limited to 2048 words.

HI-TECH®  Software has provided this freeware PICC Lite compiler, as a low-cost tool for hobbyists and students, however the licence allows its use for commercial purposes as well. It is ideal as a teaching tool for an introduction into the 'C' language and embedded programming, on a Microchip device. The selected processors were chosen for this compiler due to their popularity.

Please take note, that the command line driver is called PICL.EXE and the IDE (HPD) interface is called HTLPIC.EXE, to reflect the Lite version of the compiler. It may be integrated into MPLAB® , by editing the Language Tool path.

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