Explorer 8 Development Board User’s Guide

The Explorer 8 Development Board is one of the latest development boards for evaluating and demonstrating the capabilities and features of Microchip’s 8-bit PIC®MCUs. This board supports 8/14/20/28/40-pin DIP and 44/64/80-pin PIM-mounted PIC MCUs. 

This board is fully populated with two fixed and one variable power supply, a 16x2 Character LCD module, a pair of mikroBUS™ Click™ board headers to accommodate a variety of plug-in modules, a pair of Digilent Pmod™ connectors, an in-line completely configurable connector, PICtail™ connectors, and a USB-to-serial/I2C converter. The Explorer 8 is fully compatible with the MPLAB® Code Configurator and MPLAB X v3.00 or later. 

DEVELOPMENT KIT CONTENTS

The Explorer 8 Development Board comes with the following:
• Explorer 8 Development Board (DM160228)
• Pre-programmed DSTEMP 
• Micro USB cable

If the kit is missing any of these parts, please contact the nearest Microchip sales office listed on the back of this publication.

The MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a free, integrated software toolset for application development and debugging. Compilers and other board-compatible software and hardware tools can be purchased.

To download the MPLAB X IDE software and documentation, or get information on the other tools, visit www.microchip.com/devtools.