User manual

MCP2515 CAN BUS MONITOR

DEMO BOARD USER’S GUIDE

Preface

INTRODUCTION

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

MCP2515 CAN Bus Monitor Demo Board. Items discussed in this chapter include:

• Document Layout

• Conventions Used in this Guide

• Recommended Reading

• The Microchip Web Site

• Customer Support

• Document Revision History

DOCUMENT LAYOUT

This document describes how to use the MCP2515 CAN Bus Monitor Demo Board as

a development tool to emulate and debug firmware on a target board. The manual

layout is as follows:

• Chapter 1. “Product Overview” – Important information about the MCP2515

CAN Bus Monitor Demo Board.

• Chapter 2. “Installation and Operation” – This chapter includes a detailed

description of each function of the demo board and instructions for how to begin

using the board.

• Appendix A. “Schematic and Layouts” – Shows the schematic and layout

diagrams for the MCP2515 CAN Bus Monitor Demo Board.

• Appendix B. “Bill Of Materials (BOM)” – Lists the parts used to build the

MCP2515 CAN Bus Monitor Demo 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.