The XLP 8-bit Development Board is designed with extreme Low Power in mind. Designed as a true platform for low power development, it enables designs with sleep currents as low as 20 nA. The PICtail™ interface supports extensive line of daughter cards for easy evaluation of your next low power application.

The board provides a low-cost, highly configurable development system for 64 and 80-pin Extreme Low-Power (XLP) microcontrollers, including the PIC16(L)F1947 and PIC18F87K22 families.

The XLP 8-bit board permits users to explore and evaluate extreme low-power features, and learn low-power software and hardware techniques. Various headers are available to measure the power consumption of both the microcontroller and development board. It is flexible, supporting five different power sources over a wide voltage range. It is highly configurable, equipped with a variety of common peripheral components that can be selectively enabled. Finally, it is expandable through its modular interface, providing for the addition of advanced interfaces and connectivity methods.

As provided, the XLP 8-Bit Development Board functions as a demonstration platform on initial power-up. The included demonstration software takes a temperature measurement, datalogs information to the serial data EEPROM, and displays information to the on-board LCD. Additional software is provided to demonstrate low-power techniques and IC interface routines.

This low cost board is the ideal complement to the MPLAB® PICkit 3 or ICD 3 debugger and programmer realizing a fully-featured, economical, PIC18 or PIC16 development environment.

Key Applications: RF, temperature sensors, electronic door locks, LCD , remote controls, security sensors, smart cards, and energy harvesting.