Microchip Technology DM182015-1 User Manual

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8-BIT WIRELESS 
DEVELOPMENT KIT 
USER’S GUIDE
© 2011-2012 Microchip Technology Inc.
Preliminary
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Preface
INTRODUCTION 
This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before using the 
8-bit Wireless Development Kit User’s Guide. Items discussed in this chapter include:
• Document Layout
• Conventions Used in this Guide
• Warranty Registration
• Recommended Reading
• The Microchip Web Site
• Development Systems Customer Change Notification Service
• Customer Support
DOCUMENT LAYOUT 
This document describes how to use the 8-Bit Wireless Development kit to evaluate 
and experiment with Microchip wireless solutions. The manual layout is as follows:
: This chapter describes the 8-bit Wireless Development 
Kit and how it works.
: This chapter details the 
hardware information of the PIC18 Wireless Development Board.
: This chapter describes what you need to know to 
start using the 8-bit Wireless Development Kit.
: This chapter provides additional tutorial pro-
grams that demonstrate the additional features of 8-bit Wireless Development Kit.
: This appendix 
provides the PCB layout, BOM and PIC18 Wireless Development Board 
schematics.
NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS
All documentation becomes dated, and this manual is no exception. Microchip tools and 
documentation are constantly evolving to meet customer needs, so some actual dialogs 
and/or tool descriptions may differ from those in this document. Please refer to our web site 
(www.microchip.com) to obtain the latest documentation available.
Documents are identified with a “DS” number. This number is located on the bottom of each 
page, in front of the page number. The numbering convention for the DS number is 
“DSXXXXXA”, where “XXXXX” is the document number and “A” is the revision level of the 
document.
For the most up-to-date information on development tools, see the MPLAB
®
 IDE on-line help. 
Select the Help menu, and then Topics to open a list of available on-line help files.