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PICDEM PICTAIL PLUS

Parallel SuperFlash® Kit 1

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The Parallel Flash PICtailTM Plus Daughter Board is an evaluation board designed to interface with PICtailTM Plus connector found on the Explorer 16 Development Board. The Parallel SuperFlash® Kit 1 contains two Parallel Flash PICtailTM Plus Daughter Boards. Each board has a Parallel Flash device soldered on it. The Parallel Flash devices included are SST38VF6401 and SST39VF1601C.

Serial SuperFlash® Kit 1

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The Serial SuperFlash® Kit 1 allows evaluation of SST Serial Flash Devices which are made using the SST SuperFlash® technology. The Serial SuperFlash® Kit 1 contains three Serial Flash PICtailTM Plus Daughter Boards. The Serial Flash PICtailTM Plus Daughter Board is designed to interface with PICtailTM Plus connector found on Explorer 16 Development board.

Audio PICtail Plus Daughter Board

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The Audio PICtail Plus Daughter Board is used with the Explorer 16 Development Board and the 16 bit 28 pin Starter Board to facilitate rapid implementation, development and testing of full duplex speech and audio applications with dsPIC DSC and PIC24H.

Buck/Boost Converter PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board

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Buck/Boost Converter PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board provides an easy and economical development platform for dsPIC® SMPS and Digital Power Conversion GS family DSCs which are designed to provide low-cost and efficient control for wide range of power supply topologies. This Daughter Board consists of two independent DC/DC synchronous buck converters and one independent DC/DC boost converter and operates from input supply of +9V to +15V DC. This board can be controlled by either interfacing to 28-pin Starter Development board or to Explorer 16 Development Board.

CAN/LIN PICtail (Plus) Daughter Board

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The CAN/LIN PICtail™ (Plus) Daughter Board is used with the PIC18 Explorer Board or Explorer 16 Development Board to facilitate rapid implementation and evaluation of applications that use Controller Area Network (CAN) and Local Interconnect Network (LIN) interfaces and are implemented on PIC18 8-bit microcontrollers, dsPIC33F Digital Signal Controllers and PIC24H 16-bit microcontrollers. Features include: PICtail™ and PICtail™ Plus interface, two CAN nodes with MCP2551 transceivers, two LIN nodes with MCP2021-330 transceivers, LIN Master or Slave selectable option, external power supply input, and CD-ROM with a User’s Guide and Readme file.

Ethernet PICtail Plus Daughter Board for 10Mbps

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The Ethernet PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board is an Ethernet demonstration board for evaluating Microchip Technology's ENC28J60 stand-alone 10-Base-T Ethernet controller. It is an expansion board compatible with the Explorer 16 development board.

Fast 100Mbps Ethernet PICtail Plus Daughter Board 

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The Fast 100 Mbps Ethernet PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board is an Ethernet demonstration board for evaluating Microchip Technology’s ENC424J600 and ENC624J600 stand-alone 10/100 Ethernet controllers. The board is designed for flexibility and acts as an expansion board that can be plugged into Microchip’s 8-, 16- and 32-bit microcontroller development boards.

Graphics Controller PICtail Plus Epson S1D13517 Board

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The Graphics PICtail Plus Epson S1D13517 Board is a demonstration board for evaluating Microchip Technology’s graphic display solution and graphics library for 16- and 32-bit microcontrollers. It is an expansion board compatible with the Explorer 16 development board (DM240001) or one of the PIC32 Starter Boards (DM320001, DM320003).

Graphics PICtailTM Plus Daughter Board

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The Graphics PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board is a demonstration board for evaluating Microchip Technology's graphic LCD display solution and Graphics Library for 16- and 32-bit microcontrollers. It is an expansion board compatible with the Explorer 16 Development Board (DM240001).

IrDA PICtail Plus Daughter Board

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The IrDA PICtail Plus Daughter Board is designed to operate in conjunction with Microchip’s Explorer 16 or other development boards with a PICtail Plus connector and AN1071 IrDA Standard Stack for Microchip 16-Bit Microcontrollers to create an IrDA-enabled development and evaluation platform. The IrDA Stack is written to operate with the IrDA-enabled UARTs on the PIC24F, PIC24H, and dsPIC33 16-bit controllers and digital signal controllers.

Low-Cost Controllerless (LCC) Graphics PICtail Plus Board

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The Low-Cost Controllerless (LCC) Graphics PICtail Plus Daughter Board™ enables development of graphics solutions without an external graphics controller. The board is designed to attach to a PIC32 starter kit (See LCC graphics product page for recommended configurations) or an Explorer 16 development board and one of Microchip LCD modules.

MCP2515 PICtail Plus Daughter Board

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The MCP2515 PICtail Plus Daughter Board is a simple Controller Area Network (CAN) board designed to be used with boards containing the PICtail Plus connector. The board also has the PICkit™ Serial connector for interfacing to the PICkit Serial Analyzer tool. The CAN node consists of the MCP2515 Stand-Alone CAN controller and MCP2551 CAN transceiver. The PICkit Plus and PICkit Serial connectors allow the board to be interfaced to a variety of PICmicros so that the user can develop a CAN node.

MCP42XX PICtail Plus Daughter Board

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The MCP42XX PICtail Plus Daughter Board is used to demonstrate the operation of the MCP42XX Digital Potentiometers. The operation of the MCP41XX devices is similar to the MCP42XX devices. Therefore, this demo board can be used as a development platform for either device family.


This board is designed to be used in conjunction with either the PIC24 Explorer 16 Demo Board or the PICkit™ Serial Analyzer.

MCP46XX PICtail Plus Daughter Board 

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The MCP46XX PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board demonstrates the features and abilities of Microchip’s MCP45XX and MCP46XX Digital Potentiometers. This board is designed to exclusively use the MCP46X1 devices. The MCP4661 uses an I2C™ interface and can be controlled via the PICkit Serial Analyzer interface or via the PICtail™ Plus interface.

MCP4725 PICtail Plus Daughter Board

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This daughter board demonstrates the MCP4725 (12-bit DAC with non-volatile memory) features using the Explorer 16 Development Board and the PICkitTM Serial Analyzer.

MCP6031 Photodiode PICtail Plus Demo Board 

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The MCP6031 Photodiode PICtail™ Plus Demo Board demonstrates how to use a transimpedance amplifier, which consists of MCP6031 high precision op amp and external resistors, to convert photo-current to voltage.

Motor Control Interface PICtail Plus D-Card

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This PICtail MC board interfaces with Explorer 16 (DM240001) and the HV/LV Power Module (DM300021 and DM300022). It has a variety of test points that will make debugging of your application easier. It also has hardware support for sensor and sensor-less applications such as Hall sensors, optical encoder, back EMF and current sensing. This uses dsPIC33F device family for the MC development as opposed to the DM300020 that targets dsPIC30F for the MC application development.

PICtail Plus board for SD and MMC

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The PICtail Daughter Board for SD and MMC cards (AC164122) is a universal board that interfaces the Secure Digital (SD) and Multi-Media Card (MMC) to the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus of the microcontroller. This PICtail board is designed to operate with a multitude of demonstration boards, including all those having PICtail signals, those with PICtail Plus signals (utilizing the card-edge connectors like the Explorer 16), and those with non-standard PICtail signals.

Prototype PICtail Plus Daughter Board

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The Prototype PICtail Plus Daughter Board is an expansion breadboard card for the Explorer 16 Evaluation Board using PIC24 MCU or PIC32 MCU or dsPIC33 DSC. This board is an 8x8 cm board with a card-edge connector to plug directly into the PICtail Plus expansion socket. The breadboard area provides access to all of the processor pins and a general purpose prototyping area. AC164126 kit contains three blank Prototype PICtail Plus Daughter Boards.

Speech Playback PICtail Plus Daughter Board

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The Speech Playback PICtail Plus Daughter Board is for evaluation and development of speech recording and playback applications using Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (ADPCM). The daughter board is designed to interface with both the PICtail interface used on many PIC16 and PIC18 evaluation boards and the PICtail Plus card edge connector used on PIC24 and dsPIC evaluation boards. Reference AN643 for information on implementing an ADPCM solution.

Thermal/Linear Intelligent Sensor PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board

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The Thermal/Linear Intelligent Sensor PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board provides the signal conditioning circuits to interface thermal and linear sensor signals to a dsPIC® Digital Signal Controller or a PIC24H microcontroller. The Thermal/Linear Intelligent Sensor PICtail Plus Daughter Board is used with either the Explorer 16 Development Board or the 16-bit 28-pin Starter Development Board to demonstrate the acquisition, analog-to-digital conversion (dsPIC DSC or PIC24H devices) and signal processing of typical sensor signals using the architectural and peripheral features of the devices. The Daughter Board is intended to support the development of intelligent sensor processing applications using Microchip's 16-bit DSC and MCU device families.

USB PICtail Plus Daughter Board

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The USB PICtail Plus Daughter Board is a USB demonstration board for evaluating Microchip Technology’s 16- and 32-bit USB product lines using the Explorer 16 development board.

Features:

  • Example circuits for USB device, embedded host and On-The-Go (OTG)
  • Both horizontal and vertical PICtail Plus Daughter Board connection interfaces

Consumer-Band BPSK 7.2 Kbps Power-Line
Soft-Modem PICtail Plus™ Daughter Boar
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The Power-Line Modem (PLM) PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board provides communication over power-lines using a Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) modulation scheme. These boards interface to the popular Explorer 16 Development Board and operate in the CENELEC consumer frequency band at a carrier frequency of 129.6 kHz. The software modem runs on the dsPIC33F Digital Signal Controller (DSC) and utilizes an Analog Front End (AFE) to interface to the AC power mains.

Utility Band BPSK 6 Kbps Power Line
Soft Modem PICtail Plus Daughter Board

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The Power-Line Modem (PLM) PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board provides communication over power-lines using a Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) modulation scheme. These boards interface to the popular Explorer 16 Development Board and operate in the CENELEC utility frequency band (CELENEC A band) at a carrier frequency of 72 kHz. The software modem runs on the dsPIC33F Digital Signal Controller (DSC) and utilizes an Analog Front End (AFE) to interface to the AC power mains.

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