Summary of Contents for mikroElektronika CLICKER2 FOR PIC32MX
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A compact starter kit with your favorite microcontroller and two mikroBUS sockets ™...
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Table of contents Introduction to clicker 2 for PIC32MX 3.2 Programming with mikroProg programmer ™ Key features mikroProg Suite for PIC software ™ ® 1. Power supply 4. Buttons and LEDs 2. PIC32MX460F512L microcontroller 5. Power management and battery charger Key microcontroller features 6.
Introduction to clicker 2 for PIC32MX Clicker 2 for PIC32MX is a are also provided. The compact dev. kit with two mikroBUS connector ™ mikroBUS sockets for consists of two 1x8 female ™ click board connectivity. headers with SPI, I C, UART, ™...
1. Power supply Battery power supply Figure 1-1: Connecting USB power supply You can also power the board using a Li-Polymer battery, via on-board battery connector. On-board battery charger circuit enables you to charge the battery over USB connection. LED diode (RED) will indicate when battery is charging.
2. PIC32MX460F512L microcontroller The PIC32MX clicker development tool comes with the PIC32MX460F512L microcontroller. This 32-bit MIPS M4K Core high performance microcontroller is rich with on-chip peripherals and features 512KB of Flash and 32KB RAM. It has integrated full speed USB 2.0. support. Key microcontroller features •...
3. Programming the microcontroller Figure 3-1: PIC32MX460F512L microcontroller The microcontroller can be programmed in three ways: Using USB HID mikroBootloader, Using external mikroProg for PIC32MX programmer ™ Using external ICD2/3® programmer Page 10...
Software File folder mikroBootloader USB HID.exe Figure 3-2: USB HID mikroBootloader window Bootloader tool for mikroElektron... mikroElektronika To start, connect the USB cable, or if already connected Firmware File folder press the Reset button on your PIC32MX clicker. Click the...
step 2 – Browsing for .HEX file step 3 – Selecting .HEX file Figure 3-3: Browse for HEX Figure 3-4: Selecting HEX Click the Browse for HEX button and from a Select .HEX file using open dialog window. pop-up window (Figure 3.4) choose the .HEX file which will be uploaded to MCU memory.
step 4 – Uploading .HEX file Figure 3-5: Begin uploading Figure 3-6: Progress bar To start .HEX file bootloading click the Progress bar enables you to monitor .HEX file Begin uploading button. uploading. Page 13...
step 5 – Finish upload Figure 4-8: mikroBootloader ready for next job Figure 3-7: Restarting MCU Click OK button after the uploading process is finished. Press Reset button on PIC32MX clicker board and wait for 5 seconds. Your program will run automatically. Page 14...
3.2 Programming with mikroProg programmer ™ The microcontroller can be programmed with external mikroProg for PIC programmer and mikroProg Suite ™ ™ for PIC software. The external programmer is connected ® to the development system via 1x5 connector Figure 3-9. mikroProg is a fast USB 2.0 programmer with hardware ™...
mikroProg Suite for PIC Software ™ ® The mikroProg programmer requires ™ special programming software called mikroProg Suite for PIC . It can be ™ ® used for programming all Microchip ® microcontroller families, including PIC10 ® PIC12 , PIC16 , PIC18 , dsPIC30/33 ®...
4. Buttons and LEDs The board also contains a reset button and a pair of buttons LEDs, as well as an ON/OFF switch. The Reset button is used manually reset microcontroller by generating a low voltage level on the microcontroller’s reset pin. LEDs can be used for visual indication of the logic state on two pins (RE3) and (RA10).
5. Power management and battery charger Clicker 2 for PIC18FJ features LTC®3586-1, a highly integrated power management and battery charger IC that includes a current limited switching PowerPath manager. LTC®3586 also enables battery charging over a USB connection. Figure 5-1: power management and battery...
6. Oscillators Board is equipped with 8MHz and 32.7kHz crystal oscillators (X1 and X2) that provide external clock waveforms to the microcontroller OSC2 and OSC1 (X1) and SOSCO and SOSCI (X2) pins. This base frequency is suitable for further clock multipliers Figure 6-1: Figure 6-2: 32.768kHz...
7. USB connection PIC32MX460F512L microcontrollers has an integrated USB module, which enables you to implement USB communication functionality to your clicker 2 board. Connection with target USB host is done over a Mini-B USB connector which is positioned next to the battery connector. Figure 7-1: Connecting USB cable to clicker 2...
9.1 PWM jumper selection Clicker 2 for PIC32MX employs a solution to optimize Analog line PWM line Interrupt line the use of available pins and MCU I/Os. The PWM Digital lines* RG13 UART1 lines SEL jumper (Figure 9-2) enables two modes of SPI2 MISO use for the second available PWM line:...
9.2 RF3/USBID Jumper selection Clicker 2 for PIC32MX employs a solution to optimize the use of available pins and MCU I/Os. The PWM SEL jumper (Figure 9-2) enables two modes of use for the second available PWM line: To use RF3 as a GPIO, keep the jumper in the default position (connected to the corresponding pin on the 1x26 connection pad, see page 26) To connect the RF3 MCU pin to USB-ID (one of...
10. click boards are plug and play! ™ Up to now, MikroElektronika has released more than a 100 mikroBUS compatible click ™ ™ boards. On the average, one click board is released per week. ™ It is our intention to provide you...
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