4. January 2012 by admin.

Challenge your talent against other engineers worldwide to produce an energy efficient design solution using the Free DesignSpark PCB software and the chipKIT development board.

FREE chipKITTM Max32 dev kit for first 1,000 entries.

Achieve the most energy efficient design and you could win a share of $10,000 cash!

Plus, keep the DesignSpark community regularly informed through posts on the DesignSpark Project Pages and your updates will make you eligible for Community Choice Awards and random prize drawings!

Learn more at www.chipkitchallenge.com 

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7. December 2010 by admin.

From http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,396,754&Prod=CEREBOT32MX4

The Digilent Cerebot™ 32MX4 Board is a powerful microcontroller development board suitable for embedded control and robotics projects for both students and hobbyists. 

The Cerebot 32MX4 features one of the new Microchip® PIC32™ microcontrollers. The PIC32 provides a 32-bit MIPS processor core operating at 80Mhz, 512K bytes of program FLASH and 32K bytes of RAM memory and numerous peripheral devices, including a USB controller, timer/counters, serial interface controllers, A/D converter and more. The board has numerous I/O connectors and power supply options, including USB power. It also has a built in programming and debug circuit compatible with the Microchip MPLAB development software. 

The Cerebot 32MX4 has a nine connectors for Digilent Pmod™ peripheral modules. Digilent Pmods include H-bridges, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, a speaker, switches, buttons, LEDs, as well as converters for easy connection to RS232, screw terminals, BNC jacks, servo motors, and more. 

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7. January 2010 by admin.

From  http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,396,718&Prod=MDE-PIC18-PIC16

The MDE PIC18/PIC16 trainer is an inexpensive and powerful single-board PIC trainer based on the Microchip PIC18Fxx or PIC16Fxx. The kit includes: 

The PIC trainer board

• PIC18F4520 chip (installed) and an additional PIC16F877A chip
• Power supply
• Wire kit w/ sixteen 6″ jumper wires

The MDE PIC18/PIC16 trainer is designed to accompany the textbook PIC Microcontroller and Embedded Systems by Muhammad Ali Mazidi, Rolin McKinlay, and Danny Causey. 

To learn how to program your PIC trainer, please visit: the MicroDigitalEd website. 

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