RN2483 LoRa™ TECHNOLOGY

PICtail™/PICtail PLUS DAUGHTER

BOARD USER’S GUIDE

 2015 Microchip Technology Inc.

Advance Information

DS50002366A-page 7

Preface

INTRODUCTION

This chapter contains general information that will be useful to know before using the

RN2483 LoRa™ Technology PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board. Items discussed

in this chapter include:

• Document Layout

• Conventions Used in this Guide

• Recommended Reading

• The Microchip Web Site

• Development Systems Customer Change Notification Service

• Customer Support

• Document Revision History

DOCUMENT LAYOUT

This document describes how to use the RN2483 LoRa™ Technology PICtail™/PICtail

Plus Daughter Board as a development tool to emulate and debug firmware on a target

board, as well as how to program devices. The document is organized as follows:

• Chapter 1. “Overview” – This chapter describes the RN2483 LoRa™ Technology

PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board and presents various board configurations.

• Chapter 2. “Getting Started” – This chapter describes the two main communica-

tion modes and the hardware requirements for getting started with RN2483

LoRa™ Technology PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board.

• Appendix A. “Board Schematic and PCB Details” – This appendix provides the

RN2483 LoRa™ Technology PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board ‘s schematic,

PCB layouts and Bill of Materials (BOM).

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and/or tool descriptions may differ from those in this document. Please refer to our web site

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