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MCP1630V Bidirectional 4 Cell Li-Ion Charger Reference Design User’s Guide
DS51641A-page 2 © 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS GUIDE
This manual uses the following documentation conventions:
RECOMMENDED READING
This user's guide describes how to use MCP1630V Bidirectional 4 Cell Li-Ion Charger
Reference Design. The following Microchip documents are available and
recommended as supplemental reference resources.
MCP1630/MCP1630V Data Sheet, "High-Speed, Microcontroller-Adaptable, Pulse
Width Modulator" (DS21896)
This data sheet provides detailed information regarding the MCP1630/MCP1630V,
product family.
PIC16F88 Data Sheet, "20-Pin Flash-Based, 8-Bit CMOS Microcontrollers with
Nano Watt Technology” (DS30487)
This data sheet provides detailed information regarding the PIC16F88 product family.
APEC Conference Paper, "Bi-Directional Power System for Laptop Computers",
2005
This paper provides detailed information about powering laptop computers using 4
series cell Li-Ion batteries with a bidirectional laptop computer.
DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS
Description Represents Examples
Arial font:
Italic characters Referenced books MPLAB
®
IDE User’s Guide
Emphasized text ...is the only compiler...
Initial caps A window the Output window
A dialog the Settings dialog
A menu selection select Enable Programmer
Quotes A field name in a window or
dialog
“Save project before build”
Underlined, italic text with
right angle bracket
A menu path File>Save
Bold characters A dialog button Click OK
A tab Click the Power tab
N‘Rnnnn A number in verilog format,
where N is the total number of
digits, R is the radix and n is a
digit.
4‘b0010, 2‘hF1
Text in angle brackets < > A key on the keyboard Press <Enter>, <F1>
Courier New font:
Plain Courier New Sample source code #define START
Filenames autoexec.bat
File paths c:\mcc18\h
Keywords _asm, _endasm, static
Command-line options -Opa+, -Opa-
Bit values 0, 1
Constants 0xFF, ‘A’
Italic Courier New A variable argument file.o, where file can be
any valid filename
Square brackets [ ] Optional arguments mcc18 [options] file
[options]