Gooligum Electronics Baseline and Mid-Range PIC Construction And Operation Manual

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Baseline and Mid-Range PIC (6 – 14 pin)
This PIC development board is designed as a training environment specifically for use with the
introductory Gooligum baseline, mid-range and enhanced mid-range PIC tutorials
The tutorials were originally written for Microchip's Low Pin Count Demo Board, which supports 8-, 14-
and 20-pin PICs, can be used easily with a PICkit 2 or PICkit 3 programmer, and provides four LEDs, a
pushbutton switch and a potentiometer. As such, it's a good, simple introductory board. However, it does
not support the 6-pin 10F PICs and its LEDs cannot be used directly with 8-pin PICs.
More significantly, many of the Gooligum baseline and mid-range lessons require the use of parts not
included on that board, such as photocells, crystal-driven oscillator circuits, and 7-segment LED displays.
Although it is possible to build all of these circuits on a breadboard, connected to the Low Pin Count
Demo Board, it is a little cumbersome – especially for some of the more complex circuits.
This training board was developed to make it easy to follow the Gooligum baseline, mid-range and
introductory enhanced mid-range lessons. It works with a PICkit 2 or PICkit 3 programmer, and supports
all 8- and 14-pin baseline, mid-range and enhanced mid-range PICs, as well as all 6-pin 10F devices (in an
8-pin DIP package). It is fully configurable using the provided jumpers, and comes with all of the
hardware needed for every introductory lesson, including all the required PICs.
It features:
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Support for all 6-pin, 8-pin and 14-pin baseline, mid-range and enhanced mid-range PICs
(all 10F, 12F and 14-pin 16F devices)
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2 × pushbuttons (including
o optional external pull-up resistor on each pushbutton
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9 × LEDs
o an LED is available on each 6-pin and 8-pin PIC output pin, plus pins RC0 – RC3
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3 × 7-segment LED displays
o configurable as a single digit or multiplexed digits
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External 32.768 kHz oscillator
o can be configured to drive processor clock, Timer0 or Timer1
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4 MHz resonator, 32.768 kHz crystal and resistor/capacitor for use with processor oscillator
o 32.768 kHz crystal also available for Timer1 oscillator
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Potentiometer and 2 × photocells for use as analog inputs in comparator and ADC lessons
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Variable frequency oscillator for frequency and pulse width measurement lessons
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Piezo sounder, to demonstrate PWM outputs
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Standard ICSP connector for use with PICkit 2 or PICkit 3 programmer
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