BM70 PICTAIL
TM
/PICTAIL PLUS
EVB USER’S GUIDE
2015-2016 Microchip Technology Inc.
DS70005235C-Page 7
Preface
INTRODUCTION
This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before using the
BM70 PICtail
™
/PICtail Plus Evaluation Board (EVB). Items discussed in this chapter
include:
•
Document Layout
•
Conventions Used in this Guide
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Recommended Reading
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The Microchip Web Site
•
Development Systems Customer Change Notification Service
•
Customer Support
•
Document Revision History
DOCUMENT LAYOUT
This document describes how to use the BM70 PICtail
™
/PICtail Plus EVB (also
referred as “BM70 EVB”), 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 of the BM70 EVB and its fea-
tures.
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Chapter 2. “Hardware”
provides hardware details of the BM70 EVB.
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Chapter 3. “Getting Started”
provides information about various steps involved
to update the User Interface (UI) parameters and to set up a connection between
the BM70 EVB and a smartphone using the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) link.
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Chapter 4. “Flash Programming Procedure”
describes various steps involved
in downloading the Flash code on the BM70 EVB.
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Chapter 5. “USB-to-UART Converter and Host DUT”
describes the use of the
USB- to-UART converter circuit, available on the host Device Under Test (DUT).
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Appendix A. “Schematics”
provides the BM70 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.
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
“DSXXXXXXXXA”, where “XXXXXXXX” 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
®
X IDE online help.
Select the Help menu, and then Topics to open a list of available online help files.
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