Review - PICtail Plus Prototype Daughter Board

Contributed by Nigel Evans

Information type: Article

Keywords: microchip, pic, prototyping

Manufacturer: Microchip Technology

Product: Dev Kit

Technology: PIC

Theme: Embedded Computing

Overview

The PICtail Plus Prototype Daughter Board is a blank prototyping PCB with a PICtail Plus edge connector which mates with other Microchip PICtail Plus compatible development boards.

* Overall rating: 5/5
* Out of the Box Experience: 5/5

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Features

The PICtail Plus Prototype Daughter Board is about 80mm square and provides easy access to all the PICtail Plus I/O signals and power. There is a general purpose prototyping area about 40mm by 80mm with PTH holes on a 0.1 inch grid. You can use this prototyping area to monitor signals and interface your own circuits to the PICtail Plus bus.

Overall Experience

The PICtail Plus Prototype Daughter Board provides a quick and convenient way to interface your own circuits and devices to Microchip MCUs. Bearing in mind that the kit contains three blank Prototype Boards, it represents good value on any compatible PIC development project.

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Nigel Evans: I'm an electronic engineer with extensive experience of research, design and development in the following areas: sensors; signal conditioning; precision analogue; high resolution data acquisition; sig…

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