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Definition: Pic |
PicNoun1. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location". 2. A picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Etymology: Pic \Pic\, noun. [Compare to the French expression pic.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | PIC 1. |
Slang | Describing a position. Source: Ted. Definition: (P)erson(I)n (C)harge. Context: Describes a manager or front-end manager who has the authority to make descision regarding customer service and other problems. Social Source: 29th and Willamette Price Chopper employees. . Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
PIC may stand for:
- PIC microcontroller
- Picture
- Pacific Islanders in Communications
- Pacific Islands Club
- Parallel interference cancellation
- Parent Indicator Code (US military)
- Particle-in-cell
- Particulate inorganic carbon
- Partners in Crime (band)
- Patrol in Council (Scouts)
- Peripheral Imaging Corporation
- Peripheral inserted catheter
- Peripheral interface controller
- Peripheral intravenous catheter
- Person in charge
- Personal identification card
- Personal identification code
- Personal information carrier
- Personal information collection
- Personal Information Communicator
- Personal interactive communicator
- Personnel Investigations Center (US govt)
- Photographic Interpretation Center (several US)
- Photographic Interpretation Centre (UK)
- Photonic integrated circuit
- Pilot in command (aviation)
- Pitch-In Canada
- Plastic insulated cable
- Plastic insulated conductor
- Plume impingement contamination
- Pocket ion chamber
- Polyisocyanurate
- Port interface card
- Portable intensive care
- Position independent code (computers)
- Potential impact circle
- Predesignated Interexchange Carrier
- Primary Interexchange Carrier
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "PIC."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
PIC, is a family of RISC microcontrollers made by Microchip Technology, derived from the PIC1650 originally developed by General Instrument's Microelectronics Division.Microchip Technology does not use PIC as an acronym (in fact they call their chips PICmicros). It is generally regarded that PIC stands for Peripheral Interface Controller, General Instruments' original designation of the PIC1650.
The original PIC was built to be used with GI's new 16-bit CPU, the CP1600. While generally a good CPU, the CP1600 had poor I/O performance, and the 8-bit PIC was developed in 1975 to improve performance of the overall system by offloading I/O tasks from the CPU. The PIC used simple microcode stored in ROM to perform its tasks, and although the term wasn't used at the time, it is a RISC design that runs one instruction per cycle.
In 1985 GI spun off their microelectronics division, and the new ownership cancelled almost everything — which by this time was mostly out-of-date. The PIC, however, was upgraded with EPROM to produce a programmable channel controller, and today a huge variety of PICs are available with various on-board peripherals (serial communication modules, UARTs, motor control kernels, etc.) and program memory from 512 words to 32kwords and more (a "word" is one assembly language instruction, varying from 12-to-16 bits depending on the specific PICmicro family)
Coding for PICs
PICs use a RISC instruction set, which varies in length from about 35 instructions for the low-end PICs to about 70 instructions for the high-end PICs. Microchip provides a free IDE package called MPLAB, that also includes a software simulator as well as an assembler.
Third parties make C compilers for PICs. For the high-end 18F series, Microchip also sells a "C18" compiler. An open-source Pascal compiler, JAL, has also been released.
Programming PICs
Devices called "programmers" are traditionally used to get program code into the target PIC. Most PICs that Microchip sells nowadays have ICSP (In Circuit Serial Programming) and/or LVP (Low Voltage Programming) capabilities, allowing the PIC to be programmed while it is sitting in the target circuit.
Bit-Size
The bit size of PICs is a source of much confusion. All PICs handle data in 8-bit chunks, so they should be called 8-bit microcontrollers. But unlike most CPUs PICs use a Harvard architecture, so the size of an instruction can be different. In fact different PIC families uses different instruction sizes, which makes it a challenge to compare the code size of PICs to other microcontrollers. For example, say a microcontroller has 6144 bytes of program memory --- for a 12-bit PIC, this works out to 4096 words (or assembly instructions); for a 16-bit PIC, this is 3072 words.
Modern PICs
The old PROM and EPROM PICs are now gradually replaced by chips with Flash memory. Likewise the original 12-bit instruction set of the PIC1650 and its direct descendants has been superceded by 14-bit and 16-bit instruction sets. Microchip still sells OTP (one-time-programmable, or EPROM) and UV-eraseable (EEPROM) versions of most of its PICs for legacy support, or volume orders.
Features
Current PICs offer a wide range of inbuilt hardware, such as:
- synchronous/asynchronous serial transmission UARTs
- Analog to Digital converters
- Voltage Comparators
- Capture/Compare/PWM modules
- LCD Drivers
- I2C and SPI peripheral Bus Support
- Internal (software accessible) EEPROM memory
- Motor Control Kernels
PICs on the internet
PICs are well-documented on the internet, mainly for two reasons. First some popular consumer products (pay-TV, playstation) used PICs as part of their security system, which attracted the attention of crackerss. Second the (now obsolete, see PIC16F84) PIC16C84 was the first widely available microcontroller that could easily be re-programmed by hobbyists.
PIC clones
Every now and then there are companies that offer cheap and/or enhanced PIC versions. Most seem to disappear quite soon. Scenix (formerly Ubicom) seems to avoid this fate and produces PIC clones that run much faster than the originals.
Wireless PICs
The rfPIC microcontroller devices integrate the power of Microchip´s PICmicro devices with UHF wireless communication capabilities for low power RF applications. The devices offer small package outline and low external component count to fit the most space-constrained applications.
dsPICs (digital signal processing)
dsPICs are Microchip's newest family, scheduled to enter mass production in late 2003. These will be Microchip's first inherent 16-bit (data) microcontrollers. They build up on the PICs existing strengths by offering hardware MAC (multiply-and-accumulate), barrel shifting, bit reversing, 16-bit x 16-bit multiplication and other such operations common in digital signal processing algorithms.
See also: Microbot
External Links
Microchip Ubicom PIClist (PIC mailing list) page with links to the original PIC1650 documents Scenix
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "PIC microcontroller."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PIC | Danish | Controller for prioriterede afbrydelser | Computing, Electrical Engineering |
PIC | Dutch | Voorafgaande geinformeerde toestemming | Environment, Chemical Industry |
PIC | English | Presidential Inaugural Committee | N/A |
PIC | French | Programme d'initiatives communautaires | N/A |
PIC | German | Integrierte Schaltung für grosse Leistung | Computing |
PIC | Italian | Assenso preliminare in conoscenza di causa | Environment, Chemical Industry |
PIC | Portuguese | Prévia informação e consentimento | Food & Agriculture, Environment |
PIC | Spanish | Punto de llamada | Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: PicSynonyms: exposure (n), film (n), flick (n), motion picture (n), movie (n), moving picture (n), photo (n), photograph (n), picture (n), picture show (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pic |
| Specialty definitions using "pic": Bacbuc ♦ PIC response, primary interexchange carrier ♦ TLAs. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pic": Pitch. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pic" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (hack, peak, pickaxe, Pike, pinnacle, woodpecker), Portuguese (prior informed consent, prior informed consent(PIC), Priority Interrupt Controller), Romanian (a wee bit, atom, bead, bit, crumb, dash, drop, jot, pennyworth, pick, spark, spot, sprinkle, touch, whit), Scottish (pitch). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nic et Pic (1971) Pic et pic et colegram (1971) Nic and Pic (1975) | |
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![]() | Station Pic at west end of Picara Point Building party off of WHITING. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | [man looking into a microscope - plague pic - New Orleans?]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | The pic nic on the fourth of July "A day to be remembered" / / painted by Lilly M. Spencer ; engraved by Saml. Hollyer & J. Rogers. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Taking a pic" by Tina Lorien Commentary: "Unfortunately I blew it using a low reso. - but I really somehow love this pict." | "A boy's face" by Gabor Bognar Commentary: "Hello. This is my first photo taken a boy :) It's a funny pic." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Poland hopes to join PIC, which action would then pave the way for GMP certification, but until then exporting to the EU remains difficult. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Russia | Those who are interviewed (and refused) by the PIC at Sheremetyevo-2 generally are referred to the UNHCR, which received 43 such cases during the year. (references) |
Human Rights | Mozambique | In 2000 the Chairwoman of the LDH stated that a police contact warned her of police threats on her life following her appearance in a televised debate in which she made remarks critical of the PIC. (references) |
Mozambique | Under the law, the maximum preventive imprisonment is 48 hours, during which time a detainee has the right to have his case reviewed by judicial authorities, after which he can be detained up to another 60 days while the case is investigated by the PIC. (references) | |
Political Economy | Mozambique | The PIC, PRM, and PIR legally are under the control of the civilian Government; however, at times local police have acted in contravention of the guidelines established by the civilian authorities. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pic" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.12% of the time. "Pic" is used about 165 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.12% | 152 | 25,494 |
| Unclassified Items | 7.27% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 165 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | PIC International Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "pic": PIC response. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pic": pic-nic, pic-ture. | |
Ending with "pic": bio-pic, Xy-pic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
free pic | 14,458 | belly pic | 947 |
pic | 11,978 | adult pic | 931 |
nude pic | 9,812 | ashanti pic | 925 |
pic post | 5,683 | 2 2 fast furious pic | 916 |
britney spears pic | 2,900 | family pic | 910 |
hidden camera pic | 2,755 | pregnancy pic | 856 |
lesbian pic | 2,395 | face pic.com | 847 |
priceless pic | 2,075 | free mature pic | 831 |
free lesbian pic | 2,009 | demi moore pic | 795 |
hunter pic | 1,999 | justin timberlake pic | 791 |
charlotte good pic | 1,441 | jewel pic | 788 |
preteen pic | 1,399 | camel toe pic | 781 |
pic playboy torrie wilson | 1,393 | hulk pic | 771 |
50 cent pic | 1,217 | rurouni kenshin pic | 768 |
rate my pic | 1,159 | j lo pic | 754 |
inuyasha pic | 1,128 | beyonce pic | 754 |
adult sex pic | 1,112 | free daily pic | 710 |
lil kim pic | 1,110 | ghost pic | 702 |
b2k pic | 1,055 | duff hilary pic | 697 |
britney spears nude pic | 1,010 | face pic | 688 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | سينما (cinema), صور (characterize, depict, describe, film, paint, photo, picture, portray, shoot, snap, take, typify). (various references) | |
Danish | primary interexchange carrier response (PIC response, primary interexchange carrier), PIC response (PIC response, primary interexchange carrier). (various references) | |
Dutch | antwoord op verzoek (PIC response, primary interexchange carrier). (various references) | |
Finnish | keskustenvälinen kantoaaltovaste (PIC response, primary interexchange carrier). (various references) | |
Greek | απόκριση PIC (PIC response, primary interexchange carrier), απόκριση πρωτεύοντος διακεντρικού φορέα (PIC response, primary interexchange carrier). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fénykép (photo, photograph, photographic, pinup, pix, snapshot). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | icpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | resposta PIC (PIC response, primary interexchange carrier). (various references) | |
Spanish | portadora primaria de intercambio (PIC response, primary interexchange carrier), respuesta PIC (PIC response, primary interexchange carrier). (various references) | |
Swedish | tavla (board, canvas, painting, picture, table, tablet), film (cine, cine film, film, flick, flicks, motion picture, movie, moving picture, picture, scum), bild (depiction, effigy, figure, frame, image, photo, picture, reflection). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | RM:Cumissiun d'instituziuns politicas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pic": pica, picacho, picachos, picador, picadores, picadors, pical, picaninnies, picaninny, picante, picara, picaras, picaresque, picaresques, picaro, picaroon, picarooned, picarooning, picaroons, picaros, picas, picayune, picayunes, picayunish, piccalilli, piccalillis, piccolo, piccoloist, piccoloists, piccolos, pice, piceous, piciform, pick, pickaback, pickabacked, pickabacking, pickabacks, pickadil, pickadils, pickaninnies, pickaninny, pickaroon, pickaroons, pickax, pickaxe, pickaxed, pickaxes, pickaxing, picked, pickeer. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pic": adipic, adrenocorticotropic, allotropic, allotypic, amblyopic, ametropic, anisometropic, anisotropic, anthropic, antientropic, apocopic, arthroscopic, ascocarpic, aspic, atopic, atypic, biopic, biotypic, bronchoscopic, cryoscopic, cystoscopic, deuteranopic, diageotropic, diplopic, ecotypic, ectopic, endoscopic, entopic, entropic, epic, eurytopic, fluoroscopic, gastroscopic, genotypic, geotropic, gonadotropic, gyroscopic, hagioscopic, heliotropic, hermatypic, heterotopic, heterotypic, holotypic, hydropic, hydrotropic, hygroscopic, hypermetropic, hyperopic, hypnopompic, inotropic, isentropic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pic": abapical, allotypically, allspice, allspices, ampicillin, ampicillins, anisotropically, anthropical, apical, apically, apicals, apices, apiculate, apiculi, apicultural, apiculture, apicultures, apiculturist, apiculturists, apiculus, archetypical, aruspices, aspics, atypical, atypicalities, atypicality, atypically, auspice, auspices, auspicious, auspiciously, auspiciousness, auspiciousnesses, biopics, chloropicrin, chloropicrins, conspicuities, conspicuity, conspicuous, conspicuously, conspicuousness, conspicuousnesses, coppice, coppiced, coppices, coppicing, counterpicket, counterpicketed, counterpicketing, counterpickets, depict. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pic" (pronounced pi"k) |
| 3 | p i" k | handpick, pick, spic. |
| 2 | -i" k | brick, chick, click, Crick, Dick, flick, Hick, kick, lick, Mick, Nick, nonstick, prick, quick, realpolitik, Rick, schtick, shtick, sic, sick, slick, stick, Strick, thick, tic, tick, trick, Wick. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-p" | |
-1 letter: pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-p" | |
+1 letter: chip, clip, epic, pica, pice, pick, pics, pyic, spic. | |
+2 letters: aspic, campi, carpi, chimp, chips, chirp, clips, clipt, crimp, cripe, crisp, cupid, epics, optic, panic, pical, picas, picks, picky, picot, picul, piece, pinch, pisco, pitch, plica, price, prick, pricy, pubic, pudic, pyric, scrip, sepic, spica, spice, spick, spics, spicy, topic, typic. | |
+3 letters: adipic, apical, apices, apiece, apneic, aspics, atopic, atypic, biceps, biopic, bipack, caliph, capias, capita, caplin, capric, capris, capsid, catnip, ceriph, chimps, chippy, chirps, chirpy, chopin, cipher, clypei, copied, copier, copies, coping, cowpie, crimps, crimpy, cripes, crisps, crispy, cupids, cupric, cuspid, cuspis, depict, epical, haptic, hiccup, hypnic, icecap, impact, incept, inclip, ipecac, kickup, myopic, octopi, oilcup, optics, orphic, pacify, pacing, painch, panics, pectic, pectin, pelvic, pencil, peptic, phasic, phatic, phobic, phonic, photic, phylic, physic, pianic, picara, picaro, pickax, picked, picker, picket, pickle, pickup, picnic, picots, picric, piculs, pieced, piecer, pieces, pierce, pincer, pionic, piracy, piscos, pitchy, placid, plaice, plicae, plical, poetic, police, policy, precis, priced, pricer, prices, pricey, pricks, pricky, prince, psocid, ptotic, public, pumice, pyemic, pyknic, recipe, scampi, scrimp, scrips, script, scyphi, septic, specie, spicae, spicas, spiced, spicer, spices, spicey, spicks, splice, tipcat, topics, tropic, unclip, unpick, upcoil, uptick, wicopy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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