Your Electronics Open Source

Introduction
This chapter describes the support done in Erika Enterprise for the Evidence/Embedded solutions Flex Board. Flex is an embedded board which can be used by all the developers who want to fully exploit the potential of the latest Microchip micro-controllers: the dsPIC (R) DSC family. Flex is born as a development board where to easily develop and test real-time applications for the dsPIC (R) DSC micro-controller. The main features of Flex are:
• robust electronic design;
• modular architecture;
• availability of a growing number of application notes;
• the full support of Erika Enterprise.
To configure the usage of the Flex Board, the user has to specify an appropriate BOARD_DATA, as in the following example:
...
BOARD_DATA = EE_FLEX {
...
}
...
The Flex board supports a set of devices which are directly mounted on it, plus a set of additional devices mounted on specific add-on boards. These devices can be configured by adding attributes inside the BOARD_DATA section. The supported devices and the API functions needed to use them are described in the following sections.
Warning: The current version of the board support for Flex only supports the dsPIC (R) DSC model 33FJ256GP710.