DM240001 Explorer 16 Development Board with 100-pin PIM

The Explorer 16 Development Board is a low-cost modular development system for Microchip’s 16-bit and 32-bit microcontrollers. It supports devices from the PIC24, dsPIC and PIC32 families. A variety of families are supported with processor Plug-In Modules (PIMs) for easy device swapping.  The board includes a PICtail Plus daughter card connector for expansion boards including USB, CAN, Ethernet, wireless, graphics and many more.  Coupled with the MPLAB ICD 3 In Circuit Debugger or MPLAB REAL ICE, real-time emulation and debug facilities speed evaluation and prototyping of application circuitry.

Getting Started

  • Read the Explorer 16 User’s Manual (download section of this page)
  • Download the free
  • Download the suitable
  • Download and unzip the appropriate firmware demo code (download section of this page)

  • Includes processor PIMs for both PIC24 and dsPIC families
  • Alpha-numeric 16 x 2 LCD display
  • Interfaces to MPLAB ICD 3, MPLAB REAL ICE and RS-232
  • Includes Microchip's TC1047A high accuracy, analog output temperature sensor
  • Expansion connector to access full devices pin-out and bread board prototyping area
  • PICTailTM Plus connector for expansion boards
  • Full documentation in download section below: user's guide, schematics
  • Documentation & Software
    DocumentsLast UpdatedSize
    PIC24 and dsPIC Explorer 16 Demo - MPLAB X12/3/2015 4:14:32 PM742KB
    Explorer16 PCAD Files Rev 5.14/11/2014 12:13:59 AM200KB
    Explorer 16 Development Board User's Guide1/9/2014 8:56:41 PM1MB
    Truly's LCD 16x2 3.3V Module Specifications (TSB1G7000-E)2/18/2013 10:33:56 AM883KB
    Novatek's Single-Chip 16C X 2L Dot-Matrix LCD Controller / Driver (NT7603)1/28/2010 3:59:20 PM305KB
    DM240001 BOM and Schematics10/11/2009 5:11:10 PM866KB
    Explorer 16 Development Board Errata3/10/2008 1:51:58 PM388KB
    PIC24 and dsPIC Explorer 16 Demo - MPLAB X DM240001
    Explorer16 PCAD Files Rev 5.1 DM240001
    Explorer 16 Development Board User's Guide DM240001
    Truly's LCD 16x2 3.3V Module Specifications (TSB1G7000-E) DM240001
    Novatek's Single-Chip 16C X 2L Dot-Matrix LCD Controller / Driver (NT7603) DM240001
    DM240001 BOM and Schematics DM240001
    Explorer 16 Development Board Errata DM240001
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