User Manual

P A G E 16
E a s y P I C v 8 M a n u a l
CONNECTIVITY
Connectivity
One of the key features of the EasyPIC v8 development board is its connectivity.
It features a diversity of connecting options making the board very versatile, adaptable to any situation, and very easy
to work with.
The EasyPIC v8 development board supports all 8-bit PIC MCUs in DIP package type. To allow this, the development
board off ers a total of eight DIP socket sizes: DIP8, DIP14, DIP18 (A, B), DIP20, DIP28, DIP40 and an additional DIP8
socket for 10F MCU families.
The development board also features two display connectors (1x16 character display connector and 1x20 graphical
display connector), USB-UART, an external ICD compatible programmer/debugger connector and more. The PORT I/O
section is the most distinctive connectivity option. It allows direct interfacing with the MCU pins. This section also
contains LEDs for visual indication of pin states, BUTTONs for applying the desired logic states to the pins, and DIP
switches for confi guring pull-up or pull-down resistors.
All LEDs, buttons, and headers are logically organized and grouped as PORTs, following the pin organization topology
of the MCU itself.
Availability of fi ve standardized mikroBUS
™
sockets is something that makes the EasyPIC v8 development board very
special: the world of Click boards
™
is now just under your fi ngertips. By combining up to 5 diff erent Click boards
™
,
virtually an unlimited number of combinations is possible, considering the fact that the Click board
™
repository
already has several hundreds of various Click boards
™
, with more added on a daily basis. Tight integration of the
EasyPIC v8 development board with the whole Mikroe ecosystem, allows seamless and eff ortless prototyping, and
truly rapid embedded application development. For more info about the mikroBUS
™
standard and the Click board
™
line
of products, please visit the offi cial Mikroe web page at: www.mikroe.com
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