dsPIC33E/PIC24E USB

STARTER KIT USER’S GUIDE

© 2010-2011 Microchip Technology Inc.

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Preface

INTRODUCTION

This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before you use the

dsPIC33E USB Starter Kit or the PIC24E USB Starter Kit. Items discussed in this

Preface 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 Revision History

DOCUMENT LAYOUT

This document describes how to use one of the starter kits as a development tool to

emulate and debug firmware on a target board. The document layout is as follows:

• Chapter 1. “Introduction” – This chapter provides a brief overview of each

starter kit.

• Chapter 2. “Hardware” – This chapter provides the hardware descriptions for

each starter kit.

• Appendix A. “Board Layout and Schematics” – This appendix provides a block

diagram, board layouts, and detailed schematics of each starter kit.

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.

Select the Help menu, and then Topics to open a list of available online help files.