User manual
MCP4728 Evaluation Board User’s Guide
DS51837A-page 2 © 2009 Microchip Technology Inc.
CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS GUIDE
This manual uses the following documentation conventions:
DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS
RECOMMENDED READING
This user's guide describes how to use MCP4728 Evaluation Board. Other useful
documents are listed below. The following Microchip documents are available and
recommended as supplemental reference resources.
PICkit™ Serial Analyzer User’s Guide, DS51647
Consult this document for instructions on how to use the PICkit Serial Analyzer
hardware and software.
MCP4728 Data Sheet, “12-Bit, Quad Digital-to-Analog Converter with EEPROM
Memory” DS22187
This data sheet provides detailed information regarding for the MCP4728
Digital-to-Analog Converter.
Description Represents Examples
Code (Courier font):
Plain characters Sample code
Filenames and paths
#define START
c:\autoexec.bat
Angle brackets: < > Variables <label>, <exp>
Square brackets [ ] Optional arguments MPASMWIN [main.asm]
Curly brackets and pipe
character: { | }
Choice of mutually exclusive argu-
ments; An OR selection
errorlevel {0|1}
Lowercase characters in
quotes
Type of data
“filename”
Ellipses... Used to imply (but not show) addi-
tional text that is not relevant to the
example
list
[“list_option...,
“list_option”]
0xnnn A hexadecimal number where n is a
hexadecimal digit
0xFFFF, 0x007A
Italic characters A variable argument; it can be either a
type of data (in lowercase characters)
or a specific example (in uppercase
characters).
char isascii (char,
ch);
Interface (Arial font):
Underlined, italic text
with right arrow
A menu selection from the menu bar File > Save
Bold characters A window or dialog button to click OK, Cancel
Characters in angle
brackets < >
A key on the keyboard <Tab>, <Ctrl-C>
Documents (Arial font):
Italic characters Referenced books MPLAB
®
IDE User’s Guide