Microstick for 5V PIC24F K-series (DM240013-2) is a flexible USB powered development platform. It’s the perfect solution for those looking to get started with Microchip’s low cost 16-bit microcontroller families – 5V PIC24FV “KM” and “KA” – for extremely cost sensitive consumer, medical and industrial applications.

The Microstick for 5V PIC24 K Series Devices is designed to provide an easy-to-use, economical development environment for 5V, 16-bit microcontrollers. The board includes an integrated debugger/programmer, a socket for the target microcontroller chip and pins that facilitate insertion into a prototyping board for extremely flexible development.
Supported Parts:
Microstick for 5V PIC24F K-series supports the following 5V PIC24FV “KM” and “KA” devices (28-pin SPDIP package only)

• PIC24FV16KM202 (included in package)
• PIC24FV08KM202
• PIC24FV16KM102
• PIC24FV08KM102
• PIC24FV32KA302
• PIC24FV16KA302

The MPLAB® Integrated Development Environment (IDE) should be installed prior to using the Microstick for 5V PIC24 K Series Devices. This board is designed to run with MPLAB X IDE Version 1.60 or later. While the MPLAB IDE provides assembler tools for development, most code examples provided for Microchip devices are written in C language and require a C compiler to be installed. MPLAB XC16 Compiler seamlessly integrates into the MPLAB IDE.

Hardware Design

The Microstick for 5V PIC24 K Series Devices is USB bus powered. The device is powered directly from the 5V USB bus. Turning power on/off to the target application is controlled by the MPLAB IDE via the FPF2102 load switch. The FPF2102 load switch automatically shuts down power to the target if the current exceeds a trip point of 200 mA to 400 mA. This may help protect the host PC USB port from accidental shorting of power supply pins in the target application circuit.

The Microstick may be plugged into a prototyping board to develop external application circuitry with the PIC® MCU. On the bottom side of the board, three rows of pins are provided, labelled P1, P2 and P3. Normally, the Skinny PDIP (SPDIP) layout (300 mils) should be used by populating rows, P1 and P2. Optionally, rows, P1 and P3, may be populated instead to provide a wide PDIP layout (600 mils).

Key Applications: Consumer, Medical and Industrial applications