User manual

Preface

RECOMMENDED READING

This user’s guide describes how to use the Consumer-band BPSK 7.2 kbps PLM

PICtail Plus Daughter Board. The following Microchip documents are available from the

Microchip web site (www.microchip.com), and are recommended as supplemental

reference resources.

Explorer 16 Development Board User’s Guide (DS51589)

This development board provides a low-cost, modular development system for

Microchip’s line of 16-bit dsPIC33F Digital Signal Controller (DSC) families, and 16-bit

Microcontrollers (MCU) including the PIC24F and PIC24H.

MPLAB

C Compiler for PIC24 MCUs and dsPIC

DSCs User’s Guide

(DS51288)

This document describes the features of the optimizing C compiler, including how it

works with the assembler and linker. The assembler and linker are discussed in detail

in the “MPLAB

Assembler, Linker and Utilities for PIC24 MCUs and dsPIC

DSCs

User’s Guide” (DS51317).

dsPIC33F/PIC24H Family Reference Manual and dsPIC33F Family Data

Sheets

For information on dsPIC33F DSC device functionality, refer to the applicable family

reference manual section and product data sheets.

MPLAB

IDE User’s Guide (DS51519)

Consult this document for more information pertaining to the installation and

implementation of the MPLAB IDE software, as well as the MPLAB Editor and MPLAB

SIM Simulator software that are included with it.

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