Chameleon-PIC Nurve Networks, Chameleon-PIC Datasheet - Page 94

• Manufacturer Part Number: Chameleon-PIC
• Description: MCU, MPU & DSP Development Tools PIC24 & PROPELLER DEV SYSTEM (SBC)
• Manufacturer: Nurve Networks

Specifications of Chameleon-PIC

• Processor To Be Evaluated: PIC24
• Data Bus Width: 16 bit
• Interface Type: USB, VGA, PS/2, I2C, ISP, SPI
• Operating Supply Voltage: 3.3 V, 5 V
• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Lead free / RoHS Compliant

The final dialog, Figure 15.26, shows successfully installation of the C compiler. If you leave the “Open Release Notes”
checkbox checked you can review changes to the latest revision. Press <Finish> to exit the installer and move onto the
next section where we cover building an example project and testing the tool chain.
15.1.4 Building a Project and Testing the Tool Chain
Congratulations, you have installed everything necessary for MPLAB and PICkit 2 to work together and if you are still with
me then everything must have went correctly!
At this point, we have to set up the tools themselves which includes a lot of detail. I highly recommended you first skim
over this section then return back to this point. This way you have an idea of what’s coming. If you make mistakes during
the setup process they are easy to fix if you know you made them, but very hard if you don’t. Thus, take a few moments to
skim the screen shots then return here and we set things up for real…
Alright, we are going to approach all development with the Chameleon PIC as simple as possible. To that end, we need to
create a single project to work with, then for each demo we will simply include the source files in the source tree that the
demo needs and remove ones it doesn’t This way we don’t have dozens of projects, hundreds of directories and a big
mess. The primary steps that we must follow are:
Before we go over the actual steps of creating a demo project we first need to copy all of the demo files and Chameleon
PIC API libraries from the DVD-ROM to your local hard drive. Do this by opening up Windows Explorer and either copy or
drag the entire source folder from the DVD-ROM to your hard drive. The source files can be located here:
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Create a new project using MPLAB’s Project Wizard.
Add all the necessary demo files to the new project.
Compile the demo.
Load the compiled binary into the flash on the PIC24 processor.
Release the processor from reset and verify operation.
DVD-ROM:\ CHAM_PIC \ SOURCE \
NOTE
After the files have been copied you might need to change the permissions of the files
and remove the read only flag. You can do this by right clicking on the source folder
and selecting Properties from the pop-up menu. Then select the General tab and
uncheck the Read-only attribute flag.
Figure 15.26 – Installation finished successfully!
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