PIC-MINI-WEB, a Low Cost Embedded-Ethernet Development Board for PIC Microcontrollers

Olimex Ltd. Bulgaria, offers PIC-MINI-WEB, a low cost development board to explore Microchip PIC Ethernet solution.

PIC-MINI-WEB use PIC18F25J10 as main brain , accompanied with ENC28J60 PIC Ethernet controller. It comes with preloaded PIC TCP/IP stack, supporting SLIP, ARP, IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, HTTP, DHCP, and FTP protocols.

This board has an onboard 1Mbit (128KByte) of Serial Flash to store web pages and other data. The dimensions of this Olimex’s PIC-MINI-WEB are 55×36 mm (2.16×1.42").

Picture:PIC-MINI-WEB

PIC-MINI-WEB board shipped with pre-loaded free PIC TCP/IP stack with DHCP disabled and IP address set to 192.168.0.30. Make sure you do not have other devices/PC with same IP address with this  PIC-MINI-WEB. To test the board, plug the RJ45 connector to your your computer or LAN Hub/Switch, power on the board, open  internet browser point your browser to http://192.168.0.30. 

Specification and Key Features of  PIC-MINI-WEB:

• PIC18F25J10 microcontroller
• ENC28J60 Ethernet controller
• 1Mbit on board serial flash for web pages storage
• Mini ICSP/ICD connector for programming and debugging
• Complete web server and TCP-IP stack support as per Microchip’s open source
  TCP-IP stack

• Board operation voltage +3.3V
• Extension header connector
• Dimensions 55×36 mm (2.16×1.42″)

Olimex is preparing plastic enclosure for their PIC-MINI-WEB will be available, the dimensions are 67×48x25 mm

Schematic:

Picture:PIC-MINI-WEB SCHEMATIC 1

Picture:PIC-MINI-WEB SCHEMATIC 2

Source: Olimex, Sept 2006