MCP73871 Demo Board with Voltage Proportional Current Control User’s Guide
DS51812B-page 4 © 2009 Microchip Technology Inc.
NOTES:
MCP73871 DEMO BOARD WITH
VOLTAGE PROPORTIONAL
CURRENT CONTROL USERS GUIDE
© 2009 Microchip Technology Inc. DS51812B-page 5
Preface
INTRODUCTION
This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before using the
MCP73871 Demo Board with Voltage Proportional Current Control. Items discussed in
this chapter include:
Document Layout
Conventions Used in this Guide
Recommended Reading
The Microchip Web Site
Customer Support
Document Revision History
DOCUMENT LAYOUT
This document describes how to use the MCP73871 Demo Board with Voltage
Proportional Current Control as a linear Li-Ion battery charge controller that can share
a load. The manual layout is as follows:
Chapter 1. “Product Overview” – Important information about the MCP73871
Demo Board with Voltage Proportional Current Control.
Chapter 2. “Installation and Operation – Includes instructions on how to get
started with this user’s guide and a description of the user’s guide.
Appendix A. “Schematic and Layouts” – Shows the schematic and layout
diagrams for the MCP73871 Demo Board with Voltage Proportional Current
Control.
Appendix B. “Bill of Materials (BOM)” – Lists the parts used to build the
MCP73871 Demo Board with Voltage Proportional Current Control.
NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS
All documentation becomes dated, and this manual is no exception. Microchip tools and
documentation are constantly evolving to meet customer needs, so some actual dialogs
and/or tool descriptions may differ from those in this document. Please refer to our web site
(www.microchip.com) to obtain the latest documentation available.
Documents are identified with a “DS” number. This number is located on the bottom of each
page, in front of the page number. The numbering convention for the DS number is
“DSXXXXXA”, where “XXXXX” is the document number and “A” is the revision level of the
document.
For the most up-to-date information on development tools, see the MPLAB
®
IDE on-line help.
Select the Help menu, and then Topics to open a list of available on-line help files.
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CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS GUIDE
This manual uses the following documentation conventions:
DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS
Description Represents Examples
Arial font:
Italic characters Referenced books MPLAB
®
IDE User’s Guide
Emphasized text ...is the only compiler...
Initial caps A window the Output window
A dialog the Settings dialog
A menu selection select Enable Programmer
Quotes A field name in a window or
dialog
“Save project before build”
Underlined, italic text with
right angle bracket
A menu path File>Save
Bold characters A dialog button Click OK
A tab Click the Power tab
N‘Rnnnn A number in verilog format,
where N is the total number of
digits, R is the radix and n is a
digit.
4‘b0010, 2‘hF1
Text in angle brackets < > A key on the keyboard Press <Enter>, <F1>
Courier New font:
Plain Courier New Sample source code #define START
Filenames autoexec.bat
File paths c:\mcc18\h
Keywords _asm, _endasm, static
Command-line options -Opa+, -Opa-
Bit values 0, 1
Constants 0xFF, ‘A’
Italic Courier New A variable argument file.o, where file can be
any valid filename
Square brackets [ ] Optional arguments mcc18 [options] file
[options]
Curly brackets and pipe
character: { | }
Choice of mutually exclusive
arguments; an OR selection
errorlevel {0|1}
Ellipses... Replaces repeated text var_name [,
var_name...]
Represents code supplied by
user
void main (void)
{ ...
}

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