Microchip Unveils PICDEM Lab Development Kit

17th March 2009

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Microchip has announced the PICDEM Lab Development Kit, an entry-level development platform for all of Microchip’s 8-bit Flash PIC microcontrollers (MCUs) with 20 or fewer pins. Aimed at educators, students and newcomers to microcontrollers, the PICDEM Lab Development Kit comes complete with five popular 8-bit PIC MCUs, along with a selection of discrete components, a PICkit TM 2 Debugger/Programmer and a CD containing a User’s Guide, labs and application examples. The kit provides everything needed to quickly and easily develop applications using Microchip’s 8-bit PIC Microcontrollers.

A solderless prototyping area on the PICDEM Lab development board allows users to explore a number of application examples described in the ‘hands-on’ labs from the PICDEM Lab User’s Guide that comes with the kit. The easy-to-follow labs provide an intuitive introduction to common peripherals and then move into a variety of application examples to reinforce core concepts. All of the code examples are written in the high level programming language, C, and can be compiled using the HI TECH C compiler, available as a free download from www.microchip.com/HI-TECH

The PICDEM Lab comes complete with the following:
• PICDEM Lab Development Board, with samples of five 8-bit PIC Microcontrollers
• Component Kit
• PICkit™ 2 Debugger/Programmer
• CD containing comprehensive user’s guide, labs and application examples.
• Free HI-TECH C compiler available