40 Pin PIC Terminal Development Board

Product Description

Description: Want a serial LCD with some muscle? Maybe you just need a compact development board with a USB connection. This development board is what you've been looking for. The PIC-MT-USB uses a 40-Pin PIC at 20MHz, takes power from the USB port, communicates serially through the FTDI USB<->RS232 IC, interfaces directly to a backlit 2x16 character LCD, and leaves 16 general purpose IO pins for your wildest ideas. 

Take a look at the example code for a quick start into using the USB-Serial connection for directly printing to the LCD screen.

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  FR-4, 1.5 mm (0.062"), green soldermask, white silkscreen component print


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  20MHz crystal


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  LCD 16x2 alphanumeric display with backlight


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  2 Buttons


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  Bi-color LED


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  Power supply taken from USB port


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  Virtual USB-RS232 port


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  ICSP/ICD connector for programming with PIC Programmers and Debuggers (for PICs with ICD support)


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  DIL40 microcontroller socket


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  Four mounting holes


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  Extension headers for PIC unused ports

Dimensions: 95x36mm (3.7x1.4") 

Documents:

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  PIC-MT-USB.pdf


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  Schematic


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  PIC ICSP connector

Drivers: This board uses the FT232BM from FTDI. Drivers are here.

Spark Fun MT-USB Example Code - Code to get you started with the LCD, buttons, internal EEPROM, etc.

Board does not come with PIC installed. Please see a list of related ICs below.