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Monday, October 22, 2012

Easypic v7

Dear all, I'm back with a quick presentation, presentation which I had to share some time ago about the famous development board EasyPic v7 made by Mikroelectronika , launched on 07 October 2011.

The motherboard, at the hardware level is very well structured, it allows you to implement many configurations, depending on your desires.

On this blog I will post a series of projects realized with this motherboard.
I will attach the electronic schematic to be more easily for those who want to reproduce the project without having the Easypic v7 board.

I will not bored you with the detailed information about this product, you can find them easily on their website.
EasyPic V7 Manual.

What does it bring this development board:
  • Power Supply which allows you to work with both voltage level, +5vcc and +3,3 vcc,
  • Two sockets which allows you to connect the Click boards,
  • On-board programmer,
  • Disponibility to work with more than 387 microcontrollers,
  • The board contains eight sockets:DIP40, DIP28, DIP20, DIP18A, DIP18B, DIP14, DIP8 and support for PIC10F,
  • Disponibility to connect the peripheral via: UART, UART - USB,USB, RS232 and I2C,
  • 4 digit 7seg. - display, Lcd 2x16 character, an graphic display with a resolution of 128x64 pixels and  a touch panel controller,
  • Sockets to attach the temperature sensors DS1820 and LM35,
  • Piezo Buzzer,
  • Input/Output Group contains PORT headers, tri-state pull up/down DIP switch, buttons and LED’s,
  • ADC inputs through variable resistor, capability to adjust the brightness of Lcd’s,

The PCB is made from glass textolite with a thickness of 3 mm and a diameter of 266 x 220mm. Is very well finished and has a 445g weigh.

In conclusion EasyPIC v7 is one of the best PIC development boards I have ever seen. Full of I/O ports, highly flexible and configurable.
The schematics manual and user’s guide included in the package explain very well all the on-board features and how to use them. From my personal point of view the EasyPIC v7 is a must have development board for both beginners and experienced developers.

Some pictures with my EasyPIC v7 development board on tests phase.




7 comments:

  1. Can you tell me in mikroc, how display a decimal IN LED 7 SEGMENT (eg 12.3). Thank you very much!!

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  2. Hello,
    this is the way:

    unsigned short mask(unsigned short num)
    {
    switch (num)
    {
    case 0 : return 0x3F;
    case 1 : return 0x06;
    case 2 : return 0x5B;
    case 3 : return 0x4F;
    case 4 : return 0x66;
    case 5 : return 0x6D;
    case 6 : return 0x7D;
    case 7 : return 0x07;
    case 8 : return 0x7F;
    case 9 : return 0x6F;
    case 10 : return 0x40; // Symbol '-'
    case 11 : return 0x39; // Symbol 'c'
    case 12 : return 0x63; // Symbol degree;
    case 13 : return 0x80; // Comma "," symbol
    case 14 : return 0x00; // Blank
    } //case end
    }

    void ds18b20(unsigned int temp2write)
    {
    const unsigned short RES_SHIFT = TEMP_RESOLUTION - 8;
    unsigned temp_whole;
    unsigned int temp_fraction;
    unsigned short isNegative = 0x00;
    // Check if temperature is negative
    if (temp2write & 0x8000)
    {
    temp2write = ~temp2write + 1;
    isNegative = 1;
    }
    // Extract temp_whole
    temp_whole = temp2write >> RES_SHIFT ;

    // Extract temp_fraction and convert it to unsigned int
    temp_fraction = temp2write << (4-RES_SHIFT);
    temp_fraction &= 0x000F;
    temp_fraction *= 625; // 625 for ds18b20 and 5000 for ds1820;

    DD0 = mask(11); // Censius symbol
    DD1 = mask(12); // degree symbol
    DD2 = temp_fraction /1000;
    DD2 = mask(DD2);
    DD3 = temp_whole%10; // Extract Ones Digit
    DD3 = mask(DD3)+mask(13);
    DD4 = (temp_whole/10)%10; // Extract Tens Digit
    DD4 = mask(DD4);
    DD5 = temp_whole/100; // Extract Hundred digit

    if (isNegative == 1) DD5=10;
    else if (DD5 == 0) DD5 = 14 ;
    DD5 = mask(DD5) ;
    }

    ...by the way, the code is running.

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  3. Thank you Ducu, I will try it and simulate with ISIS.

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  4. hello ducu, I just found the code you write for the DS18B20 temperature sensor on the forum mikroc.I try to simulate it on protues but failed to show in the picture below:

    link of picture: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-POtDgxt-fNY/UIf4jcNX39I/AAAAAAAAAwk/tlzVptwjc8k/s647/ds18b20+sensor.jpg

    link of code: http://www.mikroe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=88&t=26256

    I see the code you write very well but do not understand why it fails on 7 seg LED display

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  5. Hello Huynh Minh Trung,
    be careful with Proteus, because the program has some errors, I also didn't make it to work with 7-segment digits and I let the simulation away.
    In reality it works perfectly.

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  6. Thank you again Ducu, I will try to build on the actual circuit!

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