RN2483 LoRa™ TECHNOLOGY
PICtail™/PICtail PLUS DAUGHTER
BOARD USER’S GUIDE
2015 Microchip Technology Inc.
Advance Information
DS50002366A-page 7
Preface
INTRODUCTION
This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before using the
RN2483 LoRa™ Technology PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board. 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 RN2483 LoRa™ Technology PICtail™/PICtail
Plus Daughter Board as a development tool to emulate and debug firmware on a target
board, as well as how to program devices. The document is organized as follows:
•
– This chapter describes the RN2483 LoRa™ Technology
PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board and presents various board configurations.
•
– This chapter describes the two main communica-
tion modes and the hardware requirements for getting started with RN2483
LoRa™ Technology PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board.
•
Appendix A. “Board Schematic and PCB Details”
– This appendix provides the
RN2483 LoRa™ Technology PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board ‘s schematic,
PCB layouts and Bill of Materials (BOM).
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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“DSXXXXXXXXA”, where “XXXXXXXX” is the document number and “A” is the revision level
of the document.
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