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Baseline and mid-range PIC training and dev board operation guide
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Baseline and Mid-Range PIC (6
– 14 pin)
Training and Development Board
Construction and Operation Guide
This PIC development board is designed as a training environment specifically for use with the
introductory Gooligum baseline, mid-range and enhanced mid-range PIC tutorials
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.
The tutorials were originally written for Microchip’s Low Pin Count Demo Board, which supports 8-, 14-
and 20-pin PICs, can be used easily with a PICkit 2 or PICkit 3 programmer, and provides four LEDs, a
pushbutton switch and a potentiometer. As such, it’s a good, simple introductory board. However, it does
not support the 6-pin 10F PICs and its LEDs cannot be used directly with 8-pin PICs.
More significantly, many of the Gooligum baseline and mid-range lessons require the use of parts not
included on that board, such as photocells, crystal-driven oscillator circuits, and 7-segment LED displays.
Although it is possible to build all of these circuits on a breadboard, connected to the Low Pin Count
Demo Board, it is a little cumbersome – especially for some of the more complex circuits.
This training board was developed to make it easy to follow the Gooligum baseline, mid-range and
introductory enhanced mid-range lessons. It works with a PICkit 2 or PICkit 3 programmer, and supports
all 8- and 14-pin baseline, mid-range and enhanced mid-range PICs, as well as all 6-pin 10F devices (in an
8-pin DIP package). It is fully configurable using the provided jumpers, and comes with all of the
hardware needed for every introductory lesson, including all the required PICs.
It features:
Support for all 6-pin, 8-pin and 14-pin baseline, mid-range and enhanced mid-range PICs
(all 10F, 12F and 14-pin 16F devices)
2 × pushbuttons (including
MCLR
)
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optional external pull-up resistor on each pushbutton
9 × LEDs
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an LED is available on each 6-pin and 8-pin PIC output pin, plus pins
RC0
–
RC3
3 × 7-segment LED displays
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configurable as a single digit or multiplexed digits
External 32.768 kHz oscillator
o
can be configured to drive processor clock, Timer0 or Timer1
4 MHz resonator, 32.768 kHz crystal and resistor/capacitor for use with processor oscillator
o
32.768 kHz crystal also available for Timer1 oscillator
Potentiometer and 2 × photocells for use as analog inputs in comparator and ADC lessons
Variable frequency oscillator for frequency and pulse width measurement lessons
Piezo sounder, to demonstrate PWM outputs
Standard ICSP connector for use with PICkit 2 or PICkit 3 programmer
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All baseline, mid-range, and introductory enhanced mid-range assembler and C lessons
