Overview

The new LV32MX v6 has been designed to make developing advanced applications based on Microchip's 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers as easy as possible. The board incorporates a high-speed programmer and provides I/O devices from pushbutton switches and LEDs through to two stereo CODEC and 320x240 colour TFT display with touchscreen. The LV32MX supports 64 and 100-pin TQFP-packaged PIC32MX devices via plug-in SIMM-style MCU cards and is supplied with a PIC32MX460F512L card.

High-Speed USB-2.0 Programmer

The LV32MX v6 features an on-board state-of-the-art very fast USB 2.0 PIC32Flash programmer (also compatible with USB1.1) and is supplied with easy to install drivers and Windows-based PIC32Flash programmer software. Programming support is provided for PIC32MX parts with software updates freely available for continued support of future devices.

Useful I/O Devices

To make testing programs easy and allow you to quickly configure hardware without the need to manually wire up time-consuming and possibly tempermental prototypes the LV32MX v6 incorporates a number of useful I/O devices including:

• 85 LEDs to show the status of the PIC32's I/O lines.
• 85 push-button switches to simulate digital inputs on the PIC32's I/O lines (configurable as active-high or active-low).
• 16x2 character chip-on-glass (GOG) LCD.
• 320x240 colour TFT display with touchscreen.
• Navigation/joystick switch for handling on-screen menus or as a generic input device.
• 24AA01 1Kbit serial EEPROM with I2C interface.
• M25P80 8Mbit serial Flash memory with SPI interface.
• MMC/SD card slot.
• Two RS-232 interfaces with female DB9 connectors.
• USB host and device interfaces.
• CAN interface.
• WM8731SEDS stereo CODEC with headphone and microphone sockets.
• MCP9700A analogue temperature sensor.

Other Features

Other useful features of the LV32MX v6 include:

• Accepts plug-on MCU cards to support various 64 and 100-pin PIC32 devices (100-pin PIC32MX460F512L supplied).
• Reset circuit with reset pushbutton.
• On-board rectifier and voltage regulator and power supply from PC's USB port or optional mains adapter.
• ICD2 connector providing compatibility with Microchip programmers/debuggers.
• PIC32's I/O lines brought out onto IDC headers for further expansion and connection of add-on I/O boards.
• Configurable pull-up and pull-down resistors provided on all I/O lines.
• Contrast adjustment for chip-on-glass LCD.
• Clearly labelled DIP switches and jumpers for easy configuration.
• All pins clearly labelled on underside of board.

It Doesn't End There

The LV32MX v6 is supported by a range of optional I/O add-on boards that connect easily to it's expansion connectors to further extend its functionality and offer support to whatever project you may be working on. The range of boards compatible with 3.3V currently include:

• EasyBee (ZigBee module for connection to PIC's USART).
• EasyBee3 (ZigBee/MiWi/MiWi P2P module with SPI interface).
• EasyBT (Bluetooth module for connection to PIC's USART).
• mikroSD card reader.
• SmartGPS.
• SmartGSM/GPRS.
• SmartMP3.

Plus:

• Interfacing adapters.
• Prototyping boards and adapters.

A 3.3V to 5V voltage translator board is also available to allow 5V I/O add-on boards to be connected to LV32MX v6.