Microchip Technology MCP3423, User Manual

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MCP3423 EVALUATION BOARD
USER’S GUIDE
©
2008 Microchip Technology Inc. DS51778A-page 1
Preface
INTRODUCTION
This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before using the
MCP3423 Evaluation Board. Items discussed in this chapter include:
• Document Layout
• Conventions Used in this Guide
• Recommended Reading
• The Microchip Web Site
• Customer Support
• Document Revision History
DOCUMENT LAYOUT
This document describes how to use the MCP3423 Evaluation Board as a
development tool to emulate and debug firmware on a target board. The manual layout
is as follows:
•
Chapter 1. “Quick Start Instructions”
– this chapter provides an overview of the
MCP3423 Evaluation Board and instructions on how to use the MCP3423
Evaluation Board with the PICkit Serial Analyzer.
•
Appendix A. “Schematic and Layouts”
– shows the schematic and layout
diagrams for the MCP3423 Evaluation Board.
•
Appendix B. “Bill of Materials (BOM)”
– lists the parts used to build the
MCP3423 Evaluation Board.
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.
Documents are identified with a “DS” number. This number is located on the bottom of each
page, in front of the page number. The numbering convention for the DS number is
“DSXXXXXA”, where “XXXXX” is the document number and “A” is the revision level of the
document.
For the most up-to-date information on development tools, see the MPLAB
®
IDE on-line help.
Select the Help menu, and then Topics to open a list of available on-line help files.