Microchip's LPC Curiosity Board is intended for project development with Low Pin Count chips. This includes all 8/14/20 Pin PIC Microcontrollers *.
It does NOT support 18 pin chips with the odd pinout.
This dev board is especially well-suited for the newer 20-Pin chips with CIPs (Core Independant Peripherals).
No programmer is required as it basically has a Pickit3 (PKOB) built onto the board. But if you want there is a header that allows the use of an external Pickit3 programmer. Another option is to load a bootloader and use TinyBootloader+ (now included with GCB). Bootloader hex code is soon to be available for many chips including 16F1619/18/15/14 as well as the 16F18346.
I highly recommend this development board for use with Great Cow Basic.
Inexepensive ($20 US)
Includes PIC16F1619
No Programmer Required **
Supports hundreds of different PIC Chips **
Multiple Power options
Mikro Bus Socket - Supports 100's of "Click" or compatbible breakout boards.
**The built in programmer (PKOB) uses Low Voltage Programming (LVP) and therefore supports all 8-bit 8/14/20 pin chips that support LVP. Some older chips may require an external Pickit3/2.
William
Last edit: William Roth 2016-11-04
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Microchip have also released a HPC Curiosity Development Board that takes 28 and 40 pin devices.
It has the same PKOB and can accommodate two MikroBUS Boards.
For those wanting to work on larger Projects it comes with a PIC16F18875 40-pin microcontroller.
It is priced at $32 at Microchip Direct.
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I have extensively tested the LPC Curiosity Board and it works great with Great Cow Basic. I have ordered a HPC Board and will test soon after it arrives. I am sure it will work fine.
Here is the line for GCB's FlashPIC.bat that I use for programming with PKOB.
1) MPL:ABX "IPE" Must be Installed
2) If the chip was previously programmed with config bit LVP_OFF, then the chip MUST be first programmed with an external Pickit 3 to configure LVP_ON.
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Hi,
Microchip's LPC Curiosity Board is intended for project development with Low Pin Count chips. This includes all 8/14/20 Pin PIC Microcontrollers *.
It does NOT support 18 pin chips with the odd pinout.
This dev board is especially well-suited for the newer 20-Pin chips with CIPs (Core Independant Peripherals).
No programmer is required as it basically has a Pickit3 (PKOB) built onto the board. But if you want there is a header that allows the use of an external Pickit3 programmer. Another option is to load a bootloader and use TinyBootloader+ (now included with GCB). Bootloader hex code is soon to be available for many chips including 16F1619/18/15/14 as well as the 16F18346.
I highly recommend this development board for use with Great Cow Basic.
**The built in programmer (PKOB) uses Low Voltage Programming (LVP) and therefore supports all 8-bit 8/14/20 pin chips that support LVP. Some older chips may require an external Pickit3/2.
William
Last edit: William Roth 2016-11-04
Microchip have also released a HPC Curiosity Development Board that takes 28 and 40 pin devices.
It has the same PKOB and can accommodate two MikroBUS Boards.
For those wanting to work on larger Projects it comes with a PIC16F18875 40-pin microcontroller.
It is priced at $32 at Microchip Direct.
Thank Chris,
I have extensively tested the LPC Curiosity Board and it works great with Great Cow Basic. I have ordered a HPC Board and will test soon after it arrives. I am sure it will work fine.
Here is the line for GCB's FlashPIC.bat that I use for programming with PKOB.
1) MPL:ABX "IPE" Must be Installed
2) If the chip was previously programmed with config bit LVP_OFF, then the chip MUST be first programmed with an external Pickit 3 to configure LVP_ON.