PIC-PG4 PIC16F84 /16F628 PROGRAMMER AND PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT BOARD

FEATURES:

• This board is everything you need for getting started with the PIC microcontrollers programming. It has on board power supply voltage regulator circuit, microcontroller's reset circuit, crystal oscilator circuit, LED, EEPROM memory, RS232 serial port interface, second RS232 port with build in programmer, so you can programm your microcontroller without take off the board. additional ICSP port which you can use to program PICs on other boards.
• PIC16F84A-20MHz microcontroller or PIC16F628A-20Mhz
• ICSP connector and cable for programming other PICs in-circuit
• DIL18 pin microcontroller socket
• Voltage regulator 78L05 and filtering capacitors
• Crystal oscilator circuit 20MHz
• status red LED
• I2C EEPROM 24LC08 or larger
• Reset circuit
• Two RS232 DB9 connectors
• RS232 interface circuit
• RS232 serial port programming interface circuit
• Extension on board slot 14 pins for RA0-RA3, RB0-RB7, TMR, MCLR
• Gird 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 61x76 mm (2,4x3,0") + 30 cm (12") ICSP cable

DOCUMENTS:

• PIC-PG4.pdf - Users Manual
• PIC-PG4 tutorial
• NOTE: The programmer may not work with low power serial interfaces - i.e. laptop or notebook serial ports. USB to serial cables have also not been proven to work.

HARDWARE:

• PIC-PG4 schematic
• PIC ICSP connector

• ICPROG from Bonny Gijzen freeware for programming many PICs, sometimes it doesn't work on some computers read here why.
• PICPgm freeware PIC programming software by Christian Stadler supports many PICs and is officially supporting our PIC-PG1/2/4 and PIC-PG3
• WinPIC - Great new software by Wolfgang "Wolf" Bnscher. Supports all the popular flash PICs, as well as many of the newly released PICs! Use this software for support for the 16F628A, 16F87, and 16F88.
• FREE HI-TECH's C compiler to develop your programs
• 16F628 sample code written in c2c compiler kindly provided by Pavel Baranov

FAQ:

Q: My computer have no RS232. Can I use USB to RS232 converter with PIC-PG4?
A: No, the USB to RS232 converters add delay due to USB nature and this will mess up the programming timing. If you want USB programmer consider PIC-ICD2-POCKET.

ORDERING CODES:
		PIC-PG4-84 completely assembled and tested with PIC16F84A-20Mhz microcontroller
		PIC-PG4-628 completely assembled and tested with PIC16F628A-20Mhz microcontroller