MPLAB Xpress Evaluation Board PIC16F18345

[viscomjim]

Will GCB work with this Xpress board, or does something special have to be written to be able to program this particular board?

http://www.microchip.com/Developmenttools/ProductDetails.aspx?PartNO=DM164141

I am using the Xpress board with the 16F18855 and GCB and it works great. Just want to try this board as the pic is very simular to the 16F18326 that I want to use in a couple of projects.

[Anobium]

No reason why not. Give it a go and let us know how you get on.

[viscomjim]

OK. Just ordered 2 of them. Will post back when they arrive. Thanks Evan.

[viscomjim]

Well hell's bells. Received the xpress boards with the 16f18345 and can not for the life of me find a schematic to see what pins are used for the rx/tx to the usb, so I could set up the pps. JEEEEEZ Louise. Guess I need to get a couple of needles and chase the traces somehow. WTF....

[viscomjim]

A little digging finds RX on RA0 and TX on RA1. So did a quick test and all is well...

#chip 16f18345,32

'Generated by PIC PPS Tool for Great Cow Basic
'PPS Tool version: 0.0.5.11
'PinManager data: v1.55
'
'Template comment at the start of the config file
'
#startup InitPPS, 85

Sub InitPPS
    UNLOCKPPS

        'Module: EUSART
        RXPPS = 0x0000    'RA0 > RX
        RA1PPS = 0x0014    'TX > RA1
        TXPPS = 0x0001    'RA1 > TX (bi-directional)

    LOCKPPS
End Sub
'Template comment at the end of the config file
#define USART_BAUD_RATE 19200
#define USART_TX_BLOCKING

do
    HSerPrint "Pic16f18345 Xpress board test "
    HSerPrintCRLF 2
    wait 400 ms
loop