Amicus boards

The Amicus 16A and 16B PIC development boards are Arduino Uno format but designed to be compatible with a wide range of the 16 bit Microchip PIC devices. These boards are inspired by the original 8 bit Amicus 18 board and ideal for use with the Positron Basic compilers from Rosetta Micros. There is an active user forum. Preliminary device list & spec.

The similar Amicus 8 is designed for a broad range of 8 bit, 28pin PIC devices including the 18F25K20 as used on the original Amicus 18.   Click on Ordering for prices & ordering of all products.

Amicus 16A
  Amicus 16A PIC development board
  • Amicus 16A for many 28 pin SDIP packaged PIC24 & dsPIC33 devices
  • SSOP 28pin PIC parts are usable with an SSOP-SDIP adaptor (see below)
  • Powered via USB mini or ext DC power 7 – 16V
  • Link selectable 3.3 or 5V Vcc
  • CH340K USB serial interface
  • 3 link selectable ICSP port pairs
  • 2 link selectable I2C port pairs to QWIIC socket
  • PICkit type ICSP header
  • Test LED on RB15 via high impedance driver

Schematic
Features
Device compatibility

 

Amicus 16B
  Amicus 16B PIC development board shown with SSOP PIC in adaptor board
  • Amicus 16B for 28 pin dsPIC33CH/CK devices
  • SSOP 28pin PIC parts are usable with an SSOP-SDIP adaptor (see below)
  • Powered via USB mini or ext DC power 7 – 16V
  • Link selectable 3.3 or 5V Vcc
  • CH340K USB serial interface
  • 3 link selectable ICSP port pairs
  • 2 link selectable I2C port pairs to QWIIC socket
  • PICkit type ICSP header
  • Test LED on RB15 via high impedance driver

Schematic
Features
Device compatibility
Get running @ 200MHz template

 

Amicus 8
  Amicus 8 PIC development board
  • Amicus 8 For many 28 pin SDIP devices such as 18F25K20, 18F25K22 etc.
  • SSOP 28pin PIC parts usable with an SSOP-SDIP adaptor (see below)
  • Powered via USB mini or ext DC power 7 – 16V
  • Link selectable 3.3 or 5V Vcc
  • Link enabled QWIIC I2C port
  • PICkit type ICSP header
  • Test LED on RB7 via high impedance driver
  • CH340K USB serial interface with link selectable alternate RXD pins
  • 16MHz crystal on board

Schematic
Device compatibility

 

Adaptor
  Amicus 28pin SSOP adaptor board
Amicus 28pin SSOP - SDIP adaptor
This adapts a 28 pin SSOP PIC to the main board
SDIP socket. (PIC not supplied).

 

Port LED Shield
  Amicus All Port LED Test Shield (coming soon)
All Port Test LED Shield 
Tests all the port lines using LEDS
Pullup resistors to Vcc
Vcc is selectable 3 V or 5V LED pullup
(Coming soon)

 

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Software examples
1. Positron16 - High Resolution PWM library for dsPIC33CKxxMPxxx devices (Amicus 16B)
2. Positron16 - Interrupt Driven Serial Receive buffer on a dsPIC33CKxxMP202 device (Amicus 16B)
3. Positron16 - Commodore 64 SID chip emulator using a dsPIC33 or PIC24 device (Amicus 16A)
4. Positron8 - Update to: Controlling a 16x16 WS2812B RGB LED Matrix (Amicus 8)
5. Positron8 - Another Flame Simulator using WS2812B RGB LED chips (Amicus 8)
6. How to select Internal osc @ 64MHz (Amicus 8)
7. Hardware pwm (Amicus 8)
8. Positron8 - WS2812B LEDs library working with an enhanced 14-bit core device (Amicus 8)
9. Positron8 - Emulating a Nixie Tube on an SSD1331 OLED Display (Amicus 8)