User manual
MPLAB STARTER KIT FOR PIC24F
USER’S GUIDE
© 2008 Microchip Technology Inc. DS51725A-page 1
Preface
INTRODUCTION
This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before you use the
MPLAB Starter Kit for PIC24F. 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 Revision History
DOCUMENT LAYOUT
This document describes how to use the starter kit as a development and demonstrative
tool for PIC24F MCU device capabilities and features. The manual layout is as follows:
• Chapter 1. Introduction to the Starter Kit – This chapter introduces the starter
kit and provides an overview of its features.
• Chapter 2. The Demonstration Application – This chapter describes the
preprogrammed PIC24F demo application.
• Chapter 3. Configuring the Starter Kit Hardware – This chapter describes the
different USB and power configurations available with the starter kit.
• Chapter 4. Developing an Application – This chapter describes how to debug
application software on the starter kit using MPLAB
®
IDE.
• Chapter 5. Hardware – This chapter provides a functional overview of the starter
kit and identifies the major hardware components.
• Appendix A. Starter Kit Schematics – This appendix provides detailed schematic
diagrams of the starter kit.
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.