User manual

PICkit™ SERIAL ANALYZER

USER’S GUIDE

Preface

INTRODUCTION

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

PICkit™ Serial Analyzer 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 Revision History

DOCUMENT LAYOUT

This document describes how to use the PICkit™ Serial Analyzer as a development

tool to communicate with embedded development systems via serial protocols. The

manual layout is as follows:

• Chapter 1: PICkit™ Serial Analyzer Overview

• Chapter 2: Getting Started

• Chapter 3: PICkit™ Serial Analyzer PC Program

• Chapter 4: I

C™ Master Communications

• Chapter 5: SPI Master Communications

• Chapter 6: USART Asynchronous Communications

• Chapter 7: USART Master Synchronous Communications

• Chapter 8: User Defined Templates

• Chapter 9: PICkit™ Serial Analyzer Firmware

• Chapter 10: PICkit™ Serial Analyzer DLL

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.