MICROCHIP PICDEM 4 Technical data

PICDEM™ 4 Demonstration Board

Summary

The PICDEM™ 4 Demonstration Board supports
Microchip's low pin-count PICmicro®FLASH
microcontrollers,including the PIC16F and PIC18F
families featuring nanoWatt Technology. NanoWatt
Technology refers to Microchip's advanced PMOS
Electrically Erasable Cell (PEEC) process technology,
circuit design, manufacturing and application techniques.

The PICDEM 4 Demonstration Board can be used to
evaluate and demonstrate the capabilities of Microchip's
8-, 14- and 18-pin PIC12F, PIC16F and PIC18F
microcontrollers. The demonstration board showcases
many features of low pin-count parts, including Local
Interconnect Network (LIN) and motor control features
using the enhanced capture/compare/PWM module
(ECCP). Low-power operation is achieved with a
supercapacitor circuit and jumpers allow the on-board
hardware to be disabled to eliminate current draw in this
mode.

Tutorial firmware and samples of a PIC16F and PIC18F
FLASH microcontroller are included to assist the user in
becoming familiar with the PICDEM 4 Demonstration
Board and to demonstrate the unique features of the
supported devices. For $129, designers receive a
demonstration tool that offers multiple socket options
for increased flexibility and immediate programming and
debugging.

By connecting the PICDEM 4 Demonstration Board to an
MPLAB®ICD 2, a designer can develop, simulate, debug
and download code to the microcontroller using
Microchip's powerful graphical MPLAB Interactive
Development Environment (IDE). MPLAB IDE is a
seamless, integrated software development environment
that includes a MPASM™ macro assembler, MPLAB SIM
software simulator with symbolic debugger, color-coded
source editor,project manager with high-level language
debugging and concurrent support for development
tools, including low-cost in-circuit debuggers, full-featured
real-time emulators and programmers. The consistent
and easy-to-use graphic user interface of the MPLAB
desktop allows for rapid switching between development,
debugging and programming modes within a project. The
MPLAB ICD 2 (DV164007) is available separately.
Microchip's MPLAB IDE software can be downloaded free
of charge from the Microchip web site.

Features:

Key features of the PICDEM 4 Demonstration Board
include:

· RS-232 interface.

· 2x16 liquid crystal display

· In-circuit debugger (ICD) connector for programming

via In-Circuit Serial Programming™ (ICSP™)
technology or developing with the MPLAB ICD 2

· Eight (8) LEDs, four (4) potentiometers, three (3)

push buttons

· PCB footprints for an EEPROM,H-Bridge motor

driver and LIN transceiver

· Support for crystal, RC or canned oscillator modes.

· Support for either 9-volt power adapter or battery,

or hooks for a 5-volt, 100 mA regulated DC supply

· Generous prototyping area and header for

expansion.

Package Contents:

· PICDEM 4 PCB

· Serial cable

· Two PICmicro FLASH microcontroller samples

· CD-ROM containing sample programs,

application notes and user's guide

Host System Requirements:

· PC Compatible system with an Intel Pentium®class

or higher processor, or equivalent

· A minimum of 16 MB RAM

· A minimum of 40 MB available hard drive space

· CD-ROM drive

· Available serial port

· Microsoft Windows®98, Windows 2000 or

Windows XP

PICDEM 4 Product Offering

Part Number Description PriceAvailability

DM163014 Supported Devices: PIC12F629, PIC12F675, PIC16F630, PIC16F676, $129 May 2003

PIC16F684, PIC16F627A, PIC16F628A, PIC16F648A, PIC16F818,
PIC16F819, PIC16F87, PIC16F88, PIC18F1220, PIC18F1320

Development Tools from Microchip

MPLAB®IDE Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
MPASM™ Assembler Universal PICmicro macro-assembler
MPLINK™ Linker/MPLIB™ Librarian Linker/Librarian
MPLAB C17 C compiler for PIC17CXXX MCUs
MPLAB C18 C compiler for PIC18CXXX MCUs
MPLAB SIM Simulator Software Simulator
MPLAB ICD 2 In-Circuit Debugger
MPLAB ICE 2000 Full-featured modular in-circuit emulator
PICSTART®Plus Programmer Entry-level development kit with programmer
PRO MATE®II Device Programmer Full-featured, modular device programmer
KEELOQ®Evaluation Kit Encoder/Decoder evaluator
KEELOQ Transponder Evaluation KitTransmitter/Transponder evaluator
microID™ Developer’s Kit 125 kHz and 13.56 MHz RFID development tools
MCP2510 CAN Developer’s Kit MCP2510 CAN evaluation/development tool

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As of 3/25/03

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