RN4870/71 PICtail™/PICtail PLUS
DAUGHTER BOARD USER’S GUIDE
2016 Microchip Technology Inc.
DS50002547A-page 7
Preface
INTRODUCTION
This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before using the
RN4870/71 PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter board. Items discussed in this chapter
include:
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Conventions Used in this Guide
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Development Systems Customer Change Notification Service
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DOCUMENT LAYOUT
This document describes how to use the RN4870/71 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:
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– This chapter introduces the RN4870/71
PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter board and provides an overview of its various
features.
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Chapter 2. “Interface Description”
– This chapter illustrates and describes the
various components and the interfaces available on the PICtail/PICtail Plus
Daughter board and the Sensor board.
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Chapter 3. “Quick Start Guide”
– This chapter describes how to connect the
RN4870/71 PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter board to the Host PC (via USB and
connecting and communicating with a smartphone using the SmartDiscover
app), how to create and access GATT services, and how to read the Sensor
Board Peripheral IO ports.
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Chapter 4. “RN4870 Sensor Board”
– This chapter describes the procedure to
set up the RN4870 to use the various sensors on the Sensor board and also
NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS
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