User manual

GETTING STARTED WITH PIC32

Preface

INTRODUCTION

This document is intended to enable new PIC32 users to get a basic hardware and soft-

ware understanding of the PIC32 architecture and quickly get started with software

development for PIC32 products.

This document is primarily written for anyone wanting to get overview knowledge of

PIC32 microcontrollers and associated technical collateral provided by Microchip and

its third party tools partners. A basic understanding of embedded systems development

and 'C' programming knowledge is required, if you are planning to follow step-by-step

instructions provided later in this document.

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

PIC32. 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

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.