MCP1643 SYNCHRONOUS BOOST LED
CONSTANT CURRENT REGULATOR
EVALUATION BOARD USERS GUIDE
2013 Microchip Technology Inc. DS20005196A-page 7
Preface
INTRODUCTION
This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before using the
MCP1643 Synchronous Boost LED Constant Current Regulator Evaluation Board.
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 MCP1643 Synchronous Boost LED Constant
Current Regulator Evaluation Board. The manual layout is as follows:
Chapter 1. “Product Overview” – Important information about the MCP1643
Synchronous Boost LED Constant Current Regulator Evaluation Board.
Chapter 2. “Installation and Operation” – Includes instructions on how to get
started with the MCP1643 Synchronous Boost LED Constant Current Regulator
Evaluation Board and a description of the user’s guide.
Appendix A. “Schematic and Layouts” – Shows the schematic and layout
diagrams for the MCP1643 Synchronous Boost LED Constant Current Regulator
Evaluation Board.
Appendix B. “Bill of Materials” – Lists the parts used to build the MCP1643
Synchronous Boost LED Constant Current Regulator Evaluation Board.
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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
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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)
{ ...
}
Preface
2013 Microchip Technology Inc. DS20005196A-page 9
RECOMMENDED READING
This user's guide describes how to use MCP1643 Synchronous Boost LED Constant
Current Regulator Evaluation Board. Other useful documents are listed below. The
following Microchip documents are available and recommended as supplemental
reference resources.
MCP1643 Data Sheet - “1 MHz Low Voltage Start-up Synchronous Boost
LED Constant Current Regulator” (DS20005208)
AN1311 - “Single Cell Input Boost Converter Design” (DS01311)
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Customers should contact their distributor, representative or field application engineer
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Technical support is available through the web site at:
http://www.microchip.com/support.
DOCUMENT REVISION HISTORY
Revision A (August 2013)
Initial Release of this Document.

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