TICkit 62 Product Description

The TICkit 62 is the successor to the TICkit 57, an FBasic micro-controller. This device has capabilities of the previous TICkit 57 plus many improvements. Apply a 5 Vdc power supply and you have a fully functional micro-controller.

Features Include:

1. 16 general purpose I/O lines. General purpose I/O pins can be used as input, steady state outputs or used with special functions to generate pulses, square waves, measure pulses, measure resistance or capacitance, etc. Each pin can sink/source 25 ma provided the total current of all I/O pins does not exceed 200 ma.
2. Fits a standard 40-pin DIP IC socket
3. Plugs into a solderless breadboard
4. Plugs into our project board
5. Contains reset circuit, 20 MHz crystal, socketed 8K EEprom.
6. 96 bytes of internal RAM for variables and program stack.
7. 8K EEprom expandable to 64K for nonvolatile program and/or data storage.
8. 3 hardware counters (One 16 bit and two 8 bit).
9. 1 CCP hardware unit for PWM in background, count capture or count compare.
10. IIC (I2C) slave port for background communications.
11. Signed 32 bit integer math. Routines included for doing fixed point math also.
12. Buffered RS232 routine with network/handshake support.
13. Full FBasic Interpreter with standard library and debugger.
14. Interpreter IC available separately for production.

40pin DIP Module pin diagram

28 pin DIP or SOIC interpreter IC

Schematic for the TICkit 62 module

FBasic Implementation on TICkit 62

Data Sizes and Types:

BYTE: 8bit unsigned Integer. ( 0 to 255 )
WORD: 16bit unsigned Integer. ( 0 to 65535 )
LONG: 32bit signed Integer. (-2147483688 to 2147483687 )
             ( Long type may be used as fixed point with formatting )

FBasic Keywords

Variable and Data Allocations: GLOBAL, LOCAL, SIZE, TYPE, ALIAS, PARAMETER

EEprom storage allocations: ALLOCATE, SEQUENCE, RECORD, FIELD, INITIAL

Function Declaration and Calling: FUNCTION, ENDFUNCTION, OPERATION, PROTOTYPE, EXIT, CALL, VECTOR

Flow Control, Testing, and Jumps: IF, ELSE, ELSEIF, ENDIF, REPEAT, WHILE, LOOP, UNTIL, GOTO, GOSUB, RETURN

Source File Manipulations: INCLUDE, LIBRARY, DEFINITION, IFDEFINED, IFNOTDEFINED, KEYWORD

Debugging and Testing Aids: BREAK, WATCH

Standard Library Functions

Mathematics Operators: +, ++ , -, --, *, /, %

Assignment and Size Conversion: =, trunc_byte, trunc_word, to_word, to_long

Bitwise and Logic: and, or, xor, not, >>, <<

Relational Testing: ==, >=, <=, >, <, <>

Input and Output: pin_high, pin_low, pin_in, aport_get, dport_get, aport_set, dport_set, atris_get, dtris_get, atris_set, dtris_set,cycles, rc_measure, pulse_in_low, pulse_in_high, pulse_out_low, pulse_out_high, ee_read, ee_write, i2c_read, i2c_write

External Buss: buss_setup, buss_read, buss_write

Timing and Counting: delay, sleep, rtcc_get, rtcc_set, rtcc_int, rtcc_ext_rise, rtcc_ext_fall, rtcc_count, rtcc_wait

RS232: rs_param_set, rs_param_get, rs_send, rs_receive, rs_block, rs_delay, rs_stop_check, rs_stop_ignore, rs_break

Console: con_test, con_in_word, con_in_long, con_in_char, con_in_byte, con_out_char, con_out,

System: debug_on, debug_off, reset, irq_on, irq_off, irq_test, int_cont_set, int_cont_get, int_mask_set, int_mask_get, int_flag_set, int_flag_get

Peripheral: tmr1_cont_set, tmr1_cont_get, tmr1_count_set, tmr1_count_get, tmr2_cont _set, tmr2_cont_get, tmr2_count_set, tmr2_count_get, tmr2_period_set, tmr2_period_get, ccp1_cont_set, ccp1_cont_get, ccp1_reg_set, ccp1_reg_get, ssp_cont_set, ssp_cont_get, ssp_status_get, ssp_addr_set, ssp_addr_get, ssp_buffer_set, ssp_buffer_get

Follow links for associated information:

1. TICkit 62 Application notes
2. FBASIC language
3. STAMP II vs. TICkit comparison

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