User manual

PICDEM™ LAB II DEVELOPMENT

BOARD USER’S GUIDE

 2015 Microchip Technology Inc. DS40001814A-page 5

Preface

INTRODUCTION

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

PICDEM™ Lab II Development 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

• Revision History

DOCUMENT LAYOUT

This document describes how to use the PICDEM Lab II Development Board as a

development tool to emulate and debug firmware on a target board, as well as how to

program devices. The document is organized as follows:

• Chapter 1. “Introduction to PICDEM™ Lab II” – This chapter contains general

information regarding the PICDEM Lab II Development Board kit contents, layout

and power source.

• Chapter 2. “Getting Started” – This chapter offers information on how to

program microcontrollers loaded onto the PICDEM Lab II Development Board,

general information on the prototyping area, and how to load the MCP2221

C/SMBus Terminal program.

• Chapter 3. “Where to Find the Lab Documentation” – Consult this chapter for

troubleshooting information.

• Appendix A. “Schematics” – This appendix lists the PICDEM Lab II

Development Board schematic.

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

“DSXXXXXXXXA”, where “XXXXXXXX” 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.