User manual

dsPICDEM™ MCSM DEVELOPMENT

BOARD USER’S GUIDE

Preface

INTRODUCTION

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

dsPICDEM™ Motor Control Stepper Motor (MCSM) Development Board. Topics

discussed in this preface 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 user’s guide describes how to use the dsPICDEM MCSM Development Board.

The document is organized as follows:

• Chapter 1. “Introduction” – This chapter introduces the dsPICDEM MCSM

Development Board and provides a brief overview of its features.

• Chapter 2. “Getting Started” – This chapter provides information on getting

started with the dsPICDEM MCSM Development Board.

• Chapter 3. “Hardware” – This chapter describes the hardware on the dsPICDEM

MCSM Development Board.

• Chapter 4. “Troubleshooting” – This chapter provides information for

troubleshooting problems encountered while using the dsPICDEM MCSM

Development Board.

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.