Microchip Technology MRF49XA User’s Guide

MRF49XA PICtail™/PICtail Plus

Daughter Board User’s Guide

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• Microchip products meet the specification contained in their particular Microchip Data Sheet.

• Microchip believes that its family of products is one of the most secure families of its kind on the market today, when used in the intended manner and under normal conditions.

• There are dishonest and possibly illegal methods used to breach the code protection feature. All of these methods, to our knowledge, require using the Microchip products in a manner outside the operating specifications contained in Microchip’s Data Sheets. Most likely, the person doing so is engaged in theft of intellectual property.

• Microchip is willing to work with the customer who is concerned about the integrity of their code.

• Neither Microchip nor any other semiconductor manufacturer can guarantee the security of their code. Code protection does not mean that we are guaranteeing the product as “unbreakable.”

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MCUs and dsPIC® DSCs, KEELOQ

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MRF49XA PICtail™/PICtail

PLUS DAUGHTER BOARD

USER’S GUIDE

Table of Contents

Preface ...........................................................................................................................1

Introduction............................................................................................................1

Document Layout .................................................................................................. 1

Conventions Used in this Guide............................................................................ 2

Warranty Reg is tr at io n...... .. ............... .......................................... ........................... 3

Recommended Reading.............................................................. .. ........................3

The Microchip Web Site........................................................................................ 4

Development Systems Customer Change Notification Servi ce............................4

Customer Support.................... .................................... .................. .......................5

Document Revision History................................................................................... 5

Chapter 1. Overview

1.1 Introduction .....................................................................................................7

1.2 MRF49XA PIC ta il/PICtail Plus B o a rd Co n te n ts .............................................. 7

1.3 MRF49XA PICtail/PICtail Plus Board ............................................................. 7

Chapter 2. Getting Started

2.1 Introduction .....................................................................................................9

2.2 Plugging into the PIC18 Explorer Board .........................................................9

2.3 Plugging into the Explorer 16 Development Board .................................. .. ..10

Appendix A. MRF49XA PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board Schematic

A.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................11

A.2 MRF49XA PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board Schematic .........................12

A.3 MRF49XA PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board PCB Layout .......................14

A.4 MRF49XA PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board Bill of Materials ..............16

Worldwide Sales and Service ....................................................................................18

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DAUGHTER BOARD USER’S GUIDE

Preface

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 p age 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 Select the Help menu, and then Topics to open a list of available on-line help files.

IDE on-line help.

INTRODUCTION

This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before using the MRF49XA PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board. Items discussed in this chapter include:

• Document Layout

• Conventions Used in this Guide

• Warranty Registration

• 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 MRF49XA PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board. The manual layout is as follows:

• Chapter 1. “Overview ” This chapter provides an overview of the MRF49XA PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board, including board contents and features.

• Chapter 2. “Getti ng Started” This chapter describes how to start using your MRF49XA PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board

• Appendix A. “MRF49XA PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board Schematic” This appendix contains the schematics, PCB information and Bill of Materials for the MRF49XA PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board.

MRF49XA PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board User’s Guide

CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS GUIDE

This manual uses the following docum entat io n conven tion s:

DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS

Description Represents Examples

Arial font:

Italic chara c ters Referenced books MPLAB

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

Underlined, italic text with right angle bracket

Bold characters A dialog button Click OK

N‘Rnnnn A number in verilog format,

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

Courier New font:

Plain Courier New Sample source code #define START

Italic Courier New A variable argument file.o, where file can be

Square brackets [ ] Optional arguments mcc18 [options] file

Curly brackets and pipe character: { | }

Ellipses... Replaces r epeated text var_name [,

A menu path File>Save

A tab Click the Power tab

where N is the tota l number of digits, R is th e radi x and n is a digit.

Filenames autoexec.bat File paths c:\mcc18\h Keywords _asm, _endasm, static Command-line options -Opa+, -Opa- Bit values 0, 1 Constants 0xFF, ‘A’

Choice of mut ually exclus ive arguments; an OR selection

Represents code supplied by user

“Save project before build”

4‘b0010, 2‘hF1

any valid filename

[options] errorlevel {0|1}

var_name...] void main (void)

{ ... }

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WARRANTY REGISTRATION

Please complete the enclosed Warranty Registration Card and mail it promptly. Sending in the Warranty Registration Card entitles users to receive new product updates. Interim software releases are available at the Microchip web site.

Microchip Technology MRF49XA User’s Guide

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

INTRODUCTION

DOCUMENT LAYOUT

CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS GUIDE

WARRANTY REGISTRATION

RECOMMENDED READING