Microchip Technology MRF24J40MC User’s Guide

MRF24J40MC PICtail™/

PICtail Plus Daughter Board

User’s Guide

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MCUs and dsPIC® DSCs, KEELOQ

code hopping

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USER ’S GUIDE

Table of Contents

Preface ...........................................................................................................................5

Chapter 1. Overview

1.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................11

1.2 MRF24J40MC PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board Contents ..................... 11

1.3 MRF24J40MC PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board .....................................11

Chapter 2. Getting Started

2.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................15

2.2 Plugging into the PIC18 Explorer Board .......................................................15

2.3 Plugging into the Explorer 16 Development Board ......................................16

2.4 Downloading and Running the Demo Program ............................................ 17

Appendix A. MRF24J40MC PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board Schematic

A.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................19

A.2 MRF24J40MC PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board Schematic .................. 20

A.3 MRF24J40MC PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board PCB Layout ................21

A.4 MRF24J40MC PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board Bill of Materials ........... 23

Worldwide Sales and Service ....................................................................................24

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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 “DSXXXXXA”, where “XXXXX” 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® IDE online help. Select the Help menu, and then Topics to open a list of available online help files.

INTRODUCTION

This preface contains general information that will be useful to know before using the MRF24J40MC 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 MRF24J40 M C P ICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board 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. “Overview” This chapter provides a brief overview of the MRF24J40MC PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board, including board contents and features.

• Chapter 2. “Getting Started”This chapter describes how to start using your MRF24J40MC PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board.

• Appendix A. “MRF24J40MC PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board Schemat-

ics” This appendix contains the schematics, PCB information and Bill of Materials

for the MRF24J40MC PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board.

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CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS GUIDE

This manual uses the following documentation conventions:

DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS

Description Represents Examples

Arial font:

Italic characters Referenced books MPLAB® IDE User’s Guide

Emphasized text ...is the only compiler...

Initial caps A window the Output window

A dialog the Settings dialog

A menu selection select Enable Programmer Quotes A field name in a window or dialog “Save project before build” Underlined, italic text with right

angle bracket Bold characters A dialog button Click OK

Text in angle brackets < > A key on the keyboard Press <Enter>, <F1>

Courier New font:

Plain Courier New

Italic Courier New A variable argument

Square brackets [ ] Optional arguments

Curly brackets and pipe character: { | }

Ellipses... Replaces repeated text

A menu path File>Save

A tab Click the Power tab

Sample source code

Filenames

File paths

Keywords

Command-line options

Bit values

Constants (in source code)

#define START autoexec.bat C:\mcc18\h _asm, _endasm, static

-Opa+, -Opa0, 1 0xFF, ‘A’

file.o, where file can be any valid filename

mcc18 [options] file [options]

Choice of mutually exclusive

errorlevel {0|1}

arguments; an OR selection

var_name [, var_name...]

Represents code supplied by user

void main (void) { ... }

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Frequently Asked Questions

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