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PICDEM™ 17 DEMONSTRATION
BOARD USER’S GUIDE
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PREFACE
Welcome
Thank you for purchasing the PICDEM 17 product demonstration board for
the PIC17C7XX family of microcontrollers from Microchip Technology
Incorporated. The PICDEM 17 demonstration board allows you to quickly and
easily become familiar with both the PIC17C7XX products and the MPLAB
®
ICE in-circuit emulator. The PICDEM 17 demonstration board currently
supports all 68-pin and 84-pin PLCC products.
The software provided with the PICDEM 17 demonstration board for the
PIC17C7XX Monitor runs under Microsoft
®
Windows
®
95 only.
Documentation Layout
This document describes the PICDEM 17 demonstration board. A detailed
description of the demonstration software is also provided to give the user an
overview of the PIC17C7XX series of PICmicro
®
MCUs. Detailed usage of the
microcontrollers, MPLAB IDE, or MPLAB ICE in-circuit emulator are deferred
to the individual product data sheets and user’s manuals, respectively.
Chapter 1: Introduction – This chapter introduces the PICDEM 17
demonstration board and provides a brief description of the hardware.
Chapter 2: Using the PICDEM 17 Monitor – This chapter discusses how to
use the PICDEM 17 Monitor PC program and the pre-programmed
PIC17C756A device.
Chapter 3: Hardware Description – This chapter describes in detail the
hardware of the PICDEM 17 demonstration board.
Chapter 4: Using MPLAB C17 C compiler with PICDEM 17 demonstration
board – This chapter provides a description of how to write and compile code
for execution on the PICDEM 17 demonstration board. Some special files are
required for use with the MPLAB C17 C compiler to correctly compile
programs to run in the external FLASH program memory.
Chapter 5:
LCD.C
Description – This chapter provides a detailed description
of the demonstration program for the PIC17C756A that interfaces to an
external LCD panel using an Hitachi HD44780 display controller or equivalent.
Chapter 6:
USART.C
Description – This chapter provides a detailed
description of the demonstration program for the PIC17C756A that displays
data to the USART.
Chapter 7:
ANALOG.C
Description – This chapter provides a detailed
description of the demonstration program for the PIC17C756A that reads an
A/D channel and displays the results in the Monitor program window.
