{"id":11421,"date":"2016-05-21T16:14:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T20:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=11421"},"modified":"2016-10-01T21:54:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T01:54:57","slug":"development-board-for-pic16f1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/development-board-for-pic16f1938\/","title":{"rendered":"Development board for PIC16F1938"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PIC16F1938 is a versatile 28-pin MCU belonging to Microchip&#8217;s extreme low power microcontroller family featuring nanoWatt XLP technology, 28KB of programming memory, 1KB of RAM, 11 ADC channels, and tons of other peripherals. A while ago, I designed a development board for this MCU and I thought it would be worth sharing this design here. The development board features an onboard USB-UART bridge to support the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ds30loader.com\/index.php\/products\/ds30-loader\" target=\"_blank\">ds30 Loader<\/a> for easy programming of the PIC MCU. All I\/O pins are accessible through 2&#215;5 headers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11425\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PIC16F1938_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11425\" class=\"wp-image-11425 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PIC16F1938_1-580x400.jpg\" alt=\"PIC16F1938_1\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PIC16F1938_1-580x400.jpg 580w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PIC16F1938_1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PIC16F1938 development board<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Summary of Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On-board 5V and 3.3V regulators<\/li>\n<li>Support both 5V and 3.3V MCUs. The power supply option is selected through a slide switch (SW1).<\/li>\n<li>FT232RL USB-UART bridge<\/li>\n<li>PIC16F1938 runs at 16 MHz external resonator<\/li>\n<li>PIC is preloaded with the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ds30loader.com\/index.php\/products\/ds30-loader\" target=\"_blank\">ds30 Loader<\/a><\/strong> (bootloader)<\/li>\n<li>All I\/O pins are accessible through 2&#215;5 male headers. Each header connector has VCC and GND pins.<\/li>\n<li>ICSP connector for PICKit2 or 3<\/li>\n<li>On-board LED connected to RA0 pin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_11426\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PCB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11426\" class=\"wp-image-11426 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PCB-580x430.jpg\" alt=\"PCB\" width=\"580\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PCB-580x430.jpg 580w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PCB.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top layer of PCB<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_11424\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PIC16F1938_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11424\" class=\"wp-image-11424 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PIC16F1938_2-580x447.jpg\" alt=\"PIC16F1938_2\" width=\"580\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PIC16F1938_2-580x447.jpg 580w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PIC16F1938_2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assembled PIC16F1938 development board<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PIC16F1938_Dev_Board_For_Blog_May_2016.zip\">Download EagleCAD Files<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ds30Loader_PIC16F1938.X.zip\">Download ds30Loader Bootloader for PIC16F1938<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pre-compiled HEX file for bootloader can be found inside the\u00a0<strong>dist<\/strong> folder.<\/p>\n<p>Following is the list of components used in this development board.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11430\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BOM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11430\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11430\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BOM-580x535.jpg\" alt=\"BOM\" width=\"580\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BOM-580x535.jpg 580w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BOM.jpg 848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BOM<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PIC16F1938 is a versatile 28-pin MCU belonging to Microchip&#8217;s extreme low power microcontroller family featuring nanoWatt XLP technology, 28KB of programming memory, 1KB of RAM, 11 ADC channels, and tons of other peripherals. A while ago, I designed a development board for this MCU and I thought it would be worth sharing this design here. The development board features an onboard USB-UART bridge to support the ds30 Loader for easy programming of the PIC MCU. All I\/O pins are accessible through 2&#215;5 headers. Summary of Features: On-board 5V and 3.3V regulators Support both 5V and 3.3V MCUs. The power<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,1464,367,4,1467],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-embedded-lab-projects","category-featured","category-mcu-develeopment-tools","category-pic-projects","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11421"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11434,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11421\/revisions\/11434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}