Open16F877A Standard, PIC Development Board

This development board gives you a quick start into embedded systems design using PIC microcontrollers. It comes with a variety of on board peripherals and port expansion to all the pins of the microcontroller.

Package Includes

1. 1x PIC16F877A development board
2. 1x PIC16F877A Microcontroller 40 Pin Chip
3. 2x 4-Pin Wire
4. 2x 2 Pin Wire
5. 1x USB Power Cable

What’s on board?

• 1. PIC16F877A-I/P: the high-performance PIC MCU which features:
  • Core: PIC 8-bit RISC
  • Operating Frequency: 20MHz Max
  • Operating Voltage: 2-5.5V
  • Package: DIP40
  • I/Os: 33
  • Memories: 14kB Flash, 368B RAM, 256B EEPROM
  • Communication Interfaces: 1 x MSSP(SPI/I2C), 1 x A/E/UART, 2 x PWM, 8 x ADC
  •  Debugging/Programming: ICSP interfaces
• 2. AMS1117-3.3: 3.3V voltage regulator
• 3. Power switch
• 4. Power indicator
• 5. LEDs: convenient for indicating I/O status and/or program running state
• 6. User keys: for I/O input test and/or program control
• 7. Joystick: five positions
• 8. Reset button
• 9. Buzzer
• 10. Infrared receiver
• 11. 4M crystal oscillator
• 12. 16 I/Os interface | 8-bit AD interface
  • for connecting accessory boards that use I/O control, such as FT245 USB FIFO, 8 SEG LED, etc.
  • there’s also an 8-bit AD interface that can be used for AD testing
• 13. 8 I/Os interface: for connecting accessory boards that use I/O control, such as 8 Push Buttons, motors, etc.
• 14. SPI interface: for connecting SPI peripherals, such as DataFlash (AT45DBxx), SD card, MP3, etc.
• 15. I2C interface: for connecting I2C peripherals, such as I/O expander (PCF8574), EEPROM (AT24Cxx), etc.
• 16. 1-WIRE interface: for connecting 1-WIRE devices (TO-92 package), such as temperature sensor (DS18B20), electronic registration number (DS2401), etc.
• 17. UART interface: for connecting UART peripherals, such as RS232, RS485, USB TO UART, etc.
• 18. PS/2 interface: for connecting PS/2 keyboard and/or mouse
• 19. Graphic multi-color LCD interface: for connecting 2.2-inch multi-color touch screen LCD which uses SPI control
• 20. Character LCD interface: for connecting character LCD, such as LCD1602 (3.3V blue backlight)
• 21. 5V DC jack
• 22. Custom Crystal socket
• 23. VCC power input/output: usually used for power supply output, and common ground with other application board
• 24. MCU pins connector: all the MCU pins are accessible on expansion connectors for further expansion
• 25. ICSP interface: for debugging/programming
• 26. LEDs jumper
• 27. User keys jumper
• 28. Joystick jumper
• 29. PS/2 jumper
• 30 1-WIRE jumper
• 31. Buzzer jumper
• 32. IR jumper
• 33. VCC selection jumper
• 34. Crystal selection jumper
• 35. RA4 pull-up jumper

For jumpers 26-32:

• short the jumper to connect to the I/Os used in the example code;
• open the jumper to connect to other custom pins via jumper wires.