EasyPIC Fusion™ v7 – the most complete development board for dsPIC , PIC24 and PIC32!
Over the years Microchip have shipped nearly 1.5 Million development tools to their customers – mostly low cost tools that simplify and accelerate the design- in of Microchip’s MCUs, analog and memory parts. Microchip encourages 3rd Party Tool providers to participate in the development and production of additional tools . MikroElektronika is probably one of the most trusted Third Party Tool providers Microchip have with products ranging from simple starter boards , PIC based PLCs, Compilers, Debuggers through to highly integrated platforms that require little addition hardware.
EasyPIC Fusion™ v7 is Mikroe’s latest PIC® MCU platform and combines support for three different Microchip architectures: dsPIC33, PIC24 and PIC32 on a single development board . It contains many on-board modules, including Multimedia, Ethernet, USB, CAN and others. An on-board mikroProg™ programmer and debugger supports 65 microcontrollers via MCU cards.
Engineers, Students who already have Microchip PICKits or ICDs are not forgotten since the board includes an RJ-12 socket.
As you can see from the photo – this board contains almost everything you might need and provides access to all of the MCU pins / peripherals . Code development can be done using Mikroe’s excellent MikroeC , MikroeBasic , MikroePascal compliers or Microchip’s new MPLAB XC compilers.
For the Roadtest, Mikroe will be providing the EasyPIC Fusion™ v7 board populated with a PIC32MX7 MCU card + they have kindly bundled a MikroC compiler for PIC32 . Road test boards will be pre programmed with various applications providing an exciting ‘out of the box’ experience.
Testers will be selected on the basis of quality of applications: we expect a full and complete description of why you want to test this particular product.
Testers are required to produce a full, comprehensive and well thought out review within 2 months of receipt of the product.
Failure to provide this review within the above timescale will result in the enrolee being excluded from future Road Tests.
Thanks Christian, I received the board yesterday and played a bit with it.
I will write the review as soon as possible, but before, I'd like to share a problem I encountered.
It appear that MikroElektronika recently changed the display on their TFT Board and they don't have the same controller so the Examples provided with the mikroC compiler were no longer compatible with the new controller.
It require a simple change in every project to make them compatible, I had to replace every TFT_Init instructions by TFT_Init_ILI9341_8bit.
Otherwise, the examples file provided on their product page (http://www.mikroe.com/easypic-fusion/) contains a new directory named "9A display" which is the revision of the newer TFT display.
The board was preloaded with a demo firmware, however after programming the new examples, I wasn't able to find back the one which was preloaded, so before programming anything, consider reading and saving the original one ! If someone can send it to me, it would be very kind of him.
In the hope this will be usefull for the other roadtesters !
Highly excited. to play with a dev board like Fusion v7, which has been nominated for embedded award 2013 would be a great opportunity to explore and implement new ideas. Thanks to everyone involved in this RoadTest for giving me this opportunity and I WILL try my best to provide quality review for this board.
After careful consideration, we have selected the following applicants for this RoadTest:
Cory Antosh
Thomas Balogh
Dean Faulkner
Xavier Gillard
George Harris
Md. Kamrul Hussain
Kim Mansfield
Paul Sisneros
Sujith Sudhinalayam
Malcolm Whinfield
Please note, I will be administering the RoadTest programme until further notice - please send any queries my way and I'll do my best to answer them in a timely manner.
I don't think you can modify an application, you have to email the listed owner of the Roadtest.
Looking for an answer to your question has led me to find I have been approved for a number of Roadtests and didn't know this had happened so therefore haven't given a review, nor did I receive any product (apart from one where I did provide a review), which of course would have alerted me to the fact I had been selected.
Even more frustrating is it is hard to know who to contact to let them know this problem exists.
Click on 'My Account' next to your log in at the top of the page, then select 'Road Test' from the list. You should then see a vertical menu block on the bottom left of your screen headed 'My Content', in this list will be a 'Road Test Options', click on that and it will take you to a list of all the Roadtests you have applied for and whether or not they have been approved.
I don't think they have selected the people for this one yet, but I could be wrong.
Fusion v7 contains TFT display, microSD card slot for data storing and USB device and host facilities. With dsPIC33EP MCU card, this dev kit will be a great platform for Digital Signal Processing and Analysis. More over it has mP3 codec. However, roadtest includes PIC32MX7 MCU card, which would be a powerful option.
