WINC1500 PICTAIL
TM
/PICTAIL
PLUS DAUGHTER BOARD
USER’S GUIDE
2017 Microchip Technology Inc.
Advance Information
DS70005309A-Page 13
Chapter 1. Introduction
Thank you for purchasing a WINC1500 PICtail
™
/PICtail Plus Daughter Board. This
document provides detailed information about the Microchip Technology WINC1500
PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board.
The WINC1500 PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board is a demonstration and
development board for the WINC1510-MR210PB certified Wi-Fi module.
This daughter board has PICtail and PICtail Plus connectors to interface with a PIC
microcontroller on the development boards that supports either PICtail or PICtail Plus
interface.The daughter board can be plugged into multiple Microchip Technology
demonstration and development boards. For example, the daughter board is appropri-
ate for 8-bit microcontroller development using the PIC18 Explorer Board or for 16-bit
microcontroller development using Explorer 16 Development Board.
The supporting software stacks and application notes are available for download from
the Microchip web site at:
www.microchip.com/
mplab/mplab-harmony/mplab-harmony-2-0 2
.
This chapter includes the following topics:
1.1 “Kit Contents”
1.2 “Features”
1.1
KIT CONTENTS
The WINC1500 PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board kit contains the following:
• One WINC1500 PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board, which contains the
ATWINC1510-MR210PB module
1.2
FEATURES
The following are the key features of the WINC1500 PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter
Board:
• Option to switch power source between the USB and PICtail/PICtail Plus interface
base board
• The UART debug interface of the WINC1500 daughter board can be directly
accessed from the PC through the USB header (J7)
• User LEDs for indications
• Power measurement header
• I
2
C debug header for RF validation
• GPIO debug header
CAUTION
Power to the WINC1500 PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board must be in the range of 3.0V to
3.6V. Ensure that the daughter board is plugged into a development/demonstration board that
meets the voltage requirement; otherwise, damage to the WINC1500 board may occur.