Nelson Research has been a member of the Microchip Consultants program since 1994 and is listed on the Microchip web pages and in the Third Party Guide published by Microchip. We have participated in the seminar programs each year and in the Microchip Masters Program each year since they started in Arizona. We were again just reconfirmed as having attained Master Consultant Status (Gold Level) again this year..
Nelson Research has full lab facilities allowing for the development and debug of electronic products using embedded microprocessors. The lab is equipped with Oscilloscopes, Meters, Soldering stations, Emulators, Device programmers, and computer systems. We use Microchips MPLAB ICE 2000 and Real Ice emulators to allow a full speed emulation and a PICSTART PLUS programmer and Promate Programmers in the lab and while portable at a clients site. We use Real Ice, ICD2, ICD3, Pickit 2, and Pickit 3 dev tools along with a wide assortment of demo boards and Pictail modules. We also have a PICMASTER for device emulation and two Microchip PROMATEs for device programming in the lab. We can support all Microchip processors.
We have an old Parallax emulator and programmer running on a laptop based development system for those customers requiring support on older designs with these tools as well as older desktop systems supporting older dev tool versions. With us your older designs are never orphans. Software is developed primarily with the MPLABS software from Microchip and much of our code is written directly in assembly language for maximum optimization of code space, performance, and speed. We also use several different C compilers but primarily HiTech C or CCS C, and Picbasic Pro as required to meet our clients needs. With a broad range of projects successfully completed we are prepared to assist you with all phases of your projects.
We will be happy to bid on any parts of your project or provide a full turn key solution. Contact us today for a quotation on your project.
We have published several design ideas with Microchip. These include creating a negative voltage with one pin, a simple relative humidity controller, a pulsed optical proximity controller, and a method of using a single A/D input pin to read multiple switches. These were contest winning designs with microchip that were published in a book of design ideas.