CCS RFID Development Kit

st599 · Joined: 24 May 2007 Posts: 2 Location: London, England

The kit comes with a PIC and a RFID transceiver. Could someone give me an overview of how the PIC and the transceiver interface? Is it a single command bus? Does it use RS232 via the UART?

Also, I did PICs without a debugger at Uni - just programmed them up, put them in circuit and used a MAX232. Can this be sidestepped using the CCS ICD device? Can it be forced into stand alone mode?

Thanks

PCM programmer · Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 21708

I don't have the RFID kit, but it should be possible to figure out the
connections by looking at the Example file and driver files that are
used with it. The CCS RFID board has a 16F876A on it.

c:\Program Files\PICC\Examples\Ex_RFID.c

Look at that file, and also the driver files specified in #include statements.

Guest · Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 3:39 am

I don't have the kit, I want to know if it will do what I want prior to purchase.

st599 · Joined: 24 May 2007 Posts: 2 Location: London, England

Sorry, forgot to log in before that last post.

As I said, don't own the kit, or have access to the compiler or its examples, but would like to know it will do what I want before spending cash.