Microchip Technology MCP9800DM-DL2 User Manual

MCP9800 TEMPERATURE DATA LOGGER

DEMO BOARD 2 USER’S GUIDE

2007 Microchip Technology Inc.

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Preface

INTRODUCTION

This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before using the
MCP9800 Temperature Data Logger Demo Board 2. Items discussed in this chapter
include:

• Document Layout

• Conventions Used in this Guide

• Recommended Reading

• The Microchip Web Site

• Customer Support

• Document Revision History

DOCUMENT LAYOUT

This document describes how to use the MCP9800 Temperature Data Logger Demo
Board 2. The manual layout is as follows:

• Chapter 1. “Product Overview” – Important information about the MCP9800

Temperature Data Logger Demo Board 2.

• Chapter 2. “Installation and Operation” – Demonstrates what programs need

to be installed and how to program the microcontroller on the PCB, as well as
reading the data out and displaying the data in an Excel

spreadsheet.

• Appendix A. – “Schematic and Bill of Materials (BOM)”

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.