Thousands of possibilities with Click boards™. With two mikroBUS™ sockets on clicker 2, you can take advantage of the huge potential of Click boards™, the constantly expanding range of over 898 add-on Click boards™. Blend different functionalities together and come up with new and original inventions. That’s just two clicks and your project is half-way done. Go ahead and play with a few ideas right away.
Programming. To make your prototyping experience as convenient as possible, clicker 2 for dsPIC33 is preprogrammed with a UART bootloader. Just download our mikroBootloader application and you’re ready to upload your firmware. MikroProg for PIC, dsPIC and PIC32 connector enables programming through external programmer/debugger. For more information see our article about Bootloaders.
Power Management. Clicker 2 for dsPIC33 features LTC®3586, a highly integrated power management and battery charger IC that includes a current limited switching PowerPath manager. LTC®3586 also enables battery charging over a USB connection. You can supply power to the board with a micro USB cable provided in the package. On-board voltage regulators provide the appropriate voltage levels to each component on the board.

Microchip’s dsPIC33E family of digital signal controllers (DSCs) features a 70 MIPS dsPIC® DSC core with integrated DSP and enhanced on-chip peripherals. These DSCs enable the design of high-performance, precision motor control systems that are more energy efficient, quieter in operation, have a great range and extended life.
dsPIC33EP512MU819 is 16-bit low power high-performance microcontroller is rich with on-chip peripherals and features 512 KB of program memory and 53,248 bytes of RAM. It has integrated full speed USB 2.0. support.

Focus on your main idea because clicker 2 will take care of the details for you: your prototype already has a power management system in place. The onboard LTC®3586-1 IC will provide 3.3V or 5V to the clicks. It turns the USB port into a battery charger. For convenience, clicker 2 for dsPIC33 features a reset button and an ON/OFF switch (you can also connect an external ON/OFF switch).