The PICkit™ 2 Starter Kit is a low-cost development kit with an easy to use interface for programming Microchip’s 8/14/20-pin Flash family of microcontrollers. This starter kit is designed to help the user get up to speed quickly using PIC® microcontrollers. The kit provides everything needed to program, evaluate and develop applications using Microchip’s powerful 8/14/20-pin Flash family of microcontrollers. Instructionsare provided in a series of twelve lessons that cover I/O, Interrupts, A/D Converters, Data Tables and Timers. All source code fi les for the lessons are furnished.
Features
Low pin count demo board supporting 8/14/20-pin mid-range PICmicro microcontrollers
Easy to use Windows® programming interface for programming Microchip’s 8/14/20-pin Flash family of microcontrollers
Twelve sequential lessons written in Assembly demonstrate how to use Microchip’s 8/14/20-pin Flash family of microcontrollers
Microchip’s Tips ‘n Tricks Booklets provides efficient, low-cost design techniques using Microchip Flash microcontrollers
PICkit 2 User’s Guide (included on CD ROM)
Low Pin Count Demo Board User’s Guide
FREE! Microchip’s MPLAB IDE software for a complete code development environment
FREE! HI-TECH PICC™ LITE C Compiler (contained on the MPLAB CD)
Release Notes for PICkit(R) 2 Microcontroller Programmer
Firmware Version 1.00.01
PICkit 2 V1.00
06 June 2005
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Table of Contents
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1. Device Support List
2. Operating System Support List
3. Release notes
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1. Device Support List
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PIC10F200 PIC10F202 PIC10F204 PIC10F206
PIC10F220 PIC10F222
PIC12F508 PIC12F509 PIC12F510
PIC16F54 PIC16F57 PIC16F59
PIC16F505 PIC16F506
* Indicates Newly supported part(s) in this release.
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2. Operating System Support List
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This tool has been tested under the following operating systems:
Windows(R) 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 SP2, Windows XP