This board is everything you need for getting started with PIC microcontroller programming. It has an on-board power supply voltage regulator circuit, microcontroller reset circuit, crystal oscillator circuit, LED, EEPROM memory, RS232 serial port interface, and a second RS232 port with built-in programmer, so you can program your microcontroller without taking it off the board. It also includes an in-circuit programming port which you can use to program PICs on other boards.

The picture to the right shows a PIC microcontroller installed, but one is not included.

Microchip PIC Programmer & Prototype Board Features

• DIL18 microcontroller socket
• ICSP connector and cable for programming other PICs in-circuit
• Voltage regulator 78L05 and filtering capacitors
• Crystal oscillator circuit 20MHz
• Red status LED
• I2C EEPROM (24LC08 or larger)
• Reset circuit
• Two RS232 DB9 connectors
• RS232 interface circuit
• RS232 serial port programming interface circuit
• 14 extension pin slots for RA0-RA3, RB0-RB7, TMR, MCLR
• Grid 100 mils
• GND bus
• Four mounting holes 3.3 mm (0.13")
• FR-4, 1.5 mm (0.062"), double side green soldermask, white silkscreen component mark
• Dimensions 61 x 76 mm (2.4 x 3.0") + 30 cm (12") ICSP cable

Download

• User Guide
• Schematic
• ICPROG software
• WinPIC software
• PIC16F628A sample code written in C2C compiler (requires installation of a PIC16F628A-I/P).

Note: This programmer must be used on a PC with an actual RS232 port. It will not work with a USB-RS232 adapter. Also, it may not work on low-power RS232 ports found on some laptops.