Microchip Technology BM78, User Manual

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BM78 EVB USER’S GUIDE
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2016 Microchip Technology Inc. DS70005246A-page 5
Preface
INTRODUCTION
This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before using the
BM78 Evaluation Board (EVB). Items discussed in this chapter include:
• Document Layout
• Conventions Used in this Guide
• Recommended Reading
• The Microchip Web Site
• Development Systems Customer Change Notification Service
• Customer Support
• Document Revision History
DOCUMENT LAYOUT
This document describes how to use the BM78 EVB (also referred to as “Evaluation
kit”) as a development tool to emulate and debug firmware on a target board. This
user’s guide is composed of the following chapters:
• Chapter 1. “Introduction” provides an overview and features of the BM78 EVB.
• Chapter 2. “Hardware” provides hardware details of the BM78 EVB.
• Chapter 3. “Getting Started With BM78 EVB” describes how to establish
Bluetooth serial data connection using the BM78 EVB.
• Appendix A. “Reference Schematics” provides the BM78 EVB reference
schematics.
NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS
All documentation becomes dated, and this manual is no exception. Microchip tools and
documentation are constantly evolving to meet customer needs, so some actual dialogs
and/or tool descriptions may differ from those in this document. Please refer to our web site
(
www.microchip.com ) to obtain the latest documentation available.
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of the document.
For the most up-to-date information on development tools, see the MPLAB
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X IDE online help.
Select the Help menu, and then Topics to open a list of available online help files.