Microchip Technology AC162060 Data Sheet

© 2005 Microchip Technology Inc.

DS30177T-page 59

The PICDEM HPC Explorer Board is the latest 
64/80 TQFP demonstration board for evaluating 
Microchip Technology’s PIC18F and PIC18FXXJXX 
families of devices. It comes populated with a 
PIC18F8722 MCU. Direct connection support is 
available for the MPLAB

®

 ICE 2000 and 

MPLAB ICE 4000 processor modules, plug-in modules 
and MPLAB ICD 2 In-Circuit Programmer.

The PIC18F8722 MCU is preprogrammed with 
demonstration software which displays information on 
the Windows

®

 HyperTerminal program via the serial port.

Use the following settings:

• 57600 Baud

• 8 Data Bits

• No  Parity

• 1  Stop  Bit

• No Flow Control

• Auto-detect Terminal Emulation

On power-up, PIC18F8722 will continuously display the 
LED states, potentiometer voltage, RB0 button state, 
temperature and relative time in minutes and seconds. 

• PIC18F8722, 128K Flash, 80-pin TQFP microcontroller
• Full pin breakout for easy wire wrap/prototyping
• Daughter board and MPLAB ICE 2000/4000 connector 

(with switch to disable on-board processor)

• 10 MHz crystal oscillator (to be used with internal 

PLL to provide 40 MHz operation) 

• Convenient connection for MPLAB ICD 2 (In-Circuit 

Debugger) for in-circuit programming and debugging 

• Power supply connector and programmable voltage 

regulator, operation capability from 2.0-5.5V (requires 
any standard 9-15V power supply (available separately)

• Potentiometer (connected to 10-bit A/D, analog 

input channel) 

• Temperature sensor demo included (illustrates 

Microchip’s award winning TC74 device) 

• 8 LEDs (connected to PORTD with jumper disable) 
• RS-232 port (9-pin D type connector, UART1) 
• Reset button 
• Bootloader button 
• Extended PICtail™ Daughter Board connector to allow 

connection to standard and extended expansion boards

• Serial bootloader ready (see AN851) 
• 32 kHz crystal for Real-Time Clock demonstration

To obtain the most recent and complete documentation 
for this demonstration board, including:

- User’s Guide
- Board Description
- Board Schematics
- Source Code
- Application Examples
- Links to Web Seminars

Please refer to the following web site: 

http://www.microchip.com/HPCExplorer

Pressing the RB0 button during power-up
enables the bootloader. The LEDs can be
toggled by pressing the 1 through 8 keys.

• PICDEM HPC Explorer Board
• Plug-in Module PCB Breakoff (attached to board)
• PICDEM HPC Explorer Board Information Sheet

DM183022

PICDEM™ HPC Explorer Board

DS51540

“PICDEM™ HPC Explorer Board Information Sheet” (Available at: www.microchip.com)