User manual

8-BIT WIRELESS

DEVELOPMENT KIT

USER’S GUIDE

Preface

INTRODUCTION

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

8-bit Wireless Development Kit User’s Guide. 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 LAYOUT

This document describes how to use the 8-Bit Wireless Development kit to evaluate

and experiment with Microchip wireless solutions. The manual layout is as follows:

• Chapter 1. “Overview”: This chapter describes the 8-bit Wireless Development

Kit and how it works.

• Chapter 2. “PIC18 Wireless Development Board”: This chapter details the

hardware information of the PIC18 Wireless Development Board.

• Chapter 3. “Getting Started”: This chapter describes what you need to know to

start using the 8-bit Wireless Development Kit.

• Chapter 4. “Additional Tutorials”: This chapter provides additional tutorial pro-

grams that demonstrate the additional features of 8-bit Wireless Development Kit.

• Appendix A. “PIC18 Wireless Development Board Schematic”: This appendix

provides the PCB layout, BOM and PIC18 Wireless Development Board

schematics.

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 on-line help.

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