User`s guide

MPLAB STARTER KIT FOR

dsPIC

DIGITAL SIGNAL CONTROLLERS

USER’S GUIDE

Preface

INTRODUCTION

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

MPLAB Starter Kit for dsPIC

Digital Signal Controllers. 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 demonstra-

tive tool for dsPIC33F device’s speech and audio processing capabilities. The manual

layout is as follows:

• Chapter 1. Introduction – This chapter introduces the starter kit and provides an

overview of its features.

• Chapter 2. Speech Record and Playback Demo – This chapter describes a

simple program that demonstrates how to use the starter kit for speech capture

and playback.

• Chapter 3. Develop an Application – This chapter describes how to debug

application software on the starter kit using MPLAB

IDE.

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.