Mini breakout board for 18-pin PIC16F series microcontrollers
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This mini breakout board is designed to simplify prototyping and experimentation work with the popular 18-pin PIC16F series microcontrollers. It is small in size (1.95″ X 0.75″) and is breadboard friendly.
Mini breakout board for 18-pin PIC16F series microcontrollers
It supports PIC16F84A, PIC16F628A, PIC16F88, PIC16F648A, PIC16F1827, PIC16F1847, and other 18-pin microcontrollers in the same series.
Features
- On board Reset switch and decoupling capacitor
- Easily plug into breadboard
- On board ceramic resonator (20MHz)
- ICSP header for PICKit2/3 connection
- All 18 pins of the microcontroller are broken out to a breadboard friendly 0.1″ pitch header
Circuit diagram of mini PIC breakout board
We are selling this as a kit for $7.50 on Tindie. The kit does not include any microcontroller. The following picture shows the components that you will find in the kit.
Mini PIC breakout board kit
Assembled PIC breakout board without the microcontroller
Pin configuration on the board
Connecting the PICkit3 to the ICSP header
Tindie buying link: Mini PIC breakout board
Update (March 21, 2013)
The new PCBs are manufactured from OSH Park and of better quality. Here are the soldering instructions for this kit.
1. The Mini breakout board kit consists of the following parts.
Mini PIC breakout board kit
2. First solder the low profile components (resistors R1 and R2, capacitor C1, resonator, LED, and tact switch). R1 is 10K and R2 is 470 Ohm. The LED is turned on when you power (+5V) the breakout board.
Solder low profile components first
3. Next solder the 18-pin DIP socket.
Reference image for placing the DIP IC socket on the board
4. The headers should be soldered last. You can place the straight headers and the board on a breadboard during soldering. It helps to align the headers straight.
Solder straight headers last. Use a breadboard for perfect alignment.
Tindie buying link: Mini PIC breakout board
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I’m getting ready to solder my board and the resistors in the package don’t match the ones listed above. Should I use my own with the values above? If not, which one goes where? The bands are brown/black/red and brown/black/orange.
Thanks,
Rich
Hi Rich,
Sorry about the confusion. Please use 1K (brown/black/red) for R2 (current limiting resistance for LED) and 10K (brown/black/orange) for R1 (pull up resistor for reset).
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I would like one of these boards with a five volt regulator, please.
Hi Chuckt,
I have another breakout board with onboard regulator. Visit this page and see if it works for you:
http://embedded-lab.com/blog/?p=5625
Thanks,
Raj
Thanks!
Will this circuit ICSP step debug with the pic16f1847, or does it require a debug adapter, using the PIC 3 as a program debuggter?
Debug Support
• Integrated debug support on Device. No debug header is required
• Optional external debug headers are also available
• Debug and programming support is available via PICkit™ 3, and MPLAB® ICD 3
• For Debug Header information, please refer to DS51292
Source: http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en549760
So I believe, if you use PIC16F1847, you can use debugging without additional headers.