Digilent Minicon User Manual
Digilent Hardware
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Revision: February 9, 2009
Note: This document applies to REV C of the board.
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Doc: 502-091
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Overview
The Minicon board is a useful tool for
embedded control and robotics projects for
both students and hobbyists.
The Minicon’s versatile design and
programmable embedded microcontroller
allows you to control different external
devices and program the board for multiple
uses. The board has many I/O connectors,
power supply options, and supports a
number of programming tools including
ATMEL AVR
®
STUDIO 4, and WinAVR.
The Minicon has a number of connections
for peripheral devices. Digilent peripheral
modules (Pmods™) include H-bridges,
analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog
converters, a speaker, switches, buttons,
LEDs, RS232 converters, screw terminals,
BNC connectors, servo motors, and more.
Features include:
• ATmega168 microcontroller
• five 6-pin connectors for Digilent
Pmod peripheral module boards
• four LEDs
• four mode select jumpers
• ESD protection for all I/O pins
• an on-board voltage regulator
• multiple, flexible power supply
jumper options
• in-system programming support for
the Digilent parallel JTAG cable or
the Digilent USB JTAG/SPI cable.
Figure 1
Minicon Board
ATMega168
TQ32
Three 6-pin PMOD
connectors
16K Flash
(Internal)
Reset
button
4 LEDs
4
512 EEPROM
(Internal)
Internal
Oscillator
UART, SPI,
&TWI ports
3.3V
regulator
JB
JC
J1
SPI/
ISP
J2
TWI
RS232
J4
TWI
Chain
Various power
connectors
4
4
4
4
4
1k SRAM
(Internal)
Minicon
JA
Figure 2
Block Diagram