PIC32 Devlopement Board

This post is about the board i assembled for experimenting with pic32. You must be wondering about why not use PIC32 USB starter board from microchip ? Well the answer is bcoz it doesn't have enought IO pins. I have to shell out another $72 for pic32 io expansion board. As I need io pins for interfacing more stuff to the board like MMC card etc. so i chose to assemble the board myself at home.

It isn't very difficult to do so. Only tricky part is soldering pic32 chip on to a tqfp64 pin breakout board. Breakout board for 64pin tqfp chips available cheaply. It cost around Rs 60/- ie. around $1.5 :-).

Here is the circuit diagram from the same :


Here is a snap of the finished board. Well it doesn't look pretty but it works :-)







Have fun !!!

NOTE :
1. According to pic32 manual, 10uF connected to VCAP should be a tantalum. In my board it's not a tantalum.
2. USB_JP needs to be configured correctly as per the host or device mode. This board doesn't support auto-detection for Dual-role. For that you need to use USBID & VBUSON to switch 5v intelligently.