Microchip PIC Board, 40-pin, 4x7 LED, RS232, IR, USB option

Description

Microchip PIC Board, 40-pin, 4x7 LED, RS232, IR, USB option
PVK40
Feature-rich development kit for 40-pin PICs, with in-circuit serial programming/debugging and monitoring support. Includes PIC16F877-20/P microcontroller.
Because they contain a superset of the peripherals found in lower-pin-count devices, knowledge and experience gained on the 40-pin devices applies to nearly all PIC microcontrollers. This board includes all the circuitry necessary for you to experiment with most of the microcontroller's on-chip peripherals and several external peripherals.
PIC Development Board Features
Two potentiometers connected to the A/D converter inputs
Photoresistor connected to the A/D converter input
Microphone with preamplifier connected to A/D converter input
Thermo sensor
24LC01 - I2C Serial EEPROM
Sockets for other types of serial EEPROMs (MicroWire - 93xx, SPI - 25xx)
RS232 driver and 9-pin SubD connector
24-pin DIP socket for installation of Asix USB-to-UART or USB-to-Serial module.
IR LED (transmitter)
IR receiver with 36 kHz filter and demodulator
4-digit, 7-segment LED display
10-level LED bargraph
Interface for dot-matrix alphanumeric LCD
Power and Application LEDs
8 pushbuttons
Buzzer (connected to the PWM output pin)
Crystal 3.2768 MHz
Position to connect RC oscillator
Position for crystal
Reset button
Connector for In-Circuit Serial Programming/In-Circuit Debugging (such as with
PRESTO
)
Connector for Application Monitoring (such as with
SIGMA
)
Expansion connector with all microcontroller signals
DIP switches for connecting/disconnecting the peripherals
Regulated 5V power
Power input can be 9 to 12V. A minimum 300mA is recommended.
Using one of the DIP switches, you can turn off the on-board oscillator so that you may use a crystal or RC oscillator of your own.
There is a USB port on the board which can be utilized instead of the serial port only if you install a USB-to-UART module into the 24-pin DIP socket. A module is not included.
The PVK40's expansion connector was designed for a SPINET4PVK module which would give you an Ethernet port and Ethernet-to-SPI controller.
Supported Devices
PIC16F74
PIC16F77
PIC16F871
PIC16F874, PIC16F874A
PIC16F877, PIC16F877A
PIC18F442
PIC18F448
PIC18F452
PIC18F458
ATmega64 (via optional
AVR4PVK
module)
The board comes with a PIC16F877-20/P device. It is possible to use any microcontroller with compatible pinout.