Amicus16B Board

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John...

I have two of your excellent Amicus16B boards, that you sent me as Betas when you were first developing them, and they work brilliantly with dsPIC33CK devices. However, I am now using them more often and I need serial coms. However, the boards do not have the USB to Serial chip, placed on them.

So... Is the chip a CH340K, in an ESSOP10 package, or is the earlier boards I have, different to the newer Amicus16B board? The commercial boards use CH340K devices but in a larger package.

I have seen some CH340K device on ebay for a reasonable price, but I need to make sure they are the actual device before I order them.

That little adapter board you created that allows an SSOP package to be placed into a 28-pin DIP socket is brilliant, and I have used the ones I have on some of the dsPIC33CK devices! I just wish microchip, hadn't "yet again" changed pinouts for the newer dsPIC33AK devices. So I am going to have to come up with an adapter for them, so I can plug them into the Amicus16 boards to run my tests on them, because they are quite different in architecture to dsPIC33CK devices.

Best regards
Les

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(...) I just wish microchip, hadn't "yet again" changed pinouts for the newer dsPIC33AK devices. So I am going to have to come up with an adapter for them, so I can plug them into the Amicus16 boards to run my tests on them, because they are quite different in architecture to dsPIC33CK devices.

Best regards
Les

So...is something big brewing in Les's pot ?