User manual

UTILITY-BAND BPSK 6.0 kbps PLM

PICtail™ PLUS DAUGHTER BOARD

USER’S GUIDE

Preface

INTRODUCTION

This preface contains general information that will be useful to know before using the

Utility-band BPSK 6.0 kbps PLM 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

• Chapter 1. “Introduction” provides a brief overview of the daughter board,

highlighting its features and uses.

• Chapter 2. “Hardware” provides the hardware descriptions of the daughter

board.

• Chapter 3. “Demonstration” describes simple applications that demonstrate the

capabilities of the Utility-band BPSK 6.0 kbps PLM PICtail™ Plus Daughter

Board.

• Appendix A. “Board Layout and Schematics” provides a block diagram, board

layouts, and detailed schematics of the daughter board and the HV adapter.

• Appendix B. “Bill of Materials (BOM)” provides a Bill of Materials for the

daughter board and the HV adapter.

• Appendix C. “Troubleshooting Guide” discusses common operational issues

and methods to resolve them.

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.