12. QUICK START GUIDE

- Velleman experiment boards K8055 and K8055N upgrade projects

- Multithreading support

- Universal DLL for all microcontrollers supported by PC USB Projects

- PROGRAMMING GUIDE

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NOTE: If you use Velleman a K8055-1 or a K8055N-2 experiment board with the Velleman programmed PIC18F24J50 microcontroller, you may go directly to STEP 3. You should only enable K8055_legacy switch in your Visual Basic 2010.NET application. However, this will limit the available functionality to a small Velleman function set. Just an idea! You can easily use a K8055-1 or a K8055N-2 experiment board to program a PIC18F26J50 microcontroller, so you won't have to buy an expensive microcontroller programmer. Click here to read how to do it. If you own two Vellemen K8055N-2 experiment boards, they can program each other through SK9 connector.

ALTERNATIVE STEP 3: Get a complete Visual Studio .NET example with source code (examples are mostly in Visual Basic .NET) and a suitable DLL included from DOWNLOADS section. One of the most interesting examples for beginners is Multithreading support example which covers all the basic microcontroler functionality, such as I/O ports, A/D converters, timers, counters and direct memory access.

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STEP 3: Get LIB_PCUSBProjects v7.0.NET4.dll (for a 32-bit Windows application) or LIB_PCUSBProjects v7.0.NET4x64.dll (for a 64-bit Windows application) from DOWNLOADS section and include it in your Visual Studio .NET project. Look at PROGRAMMING GUIDE for more information.

STEP 2: Program your microcontroller with your HEX file.

STEP 1: Download an universal firmware package (like: PIC18F26J50 firmware v2.7.8 - universal.zip or PIC32MX250F128B firmware v2.9.1 - all subversions.zip, PIC32MZ2048ECH100 firmware v2.9.2 - all subversions.zip) for your microcontroller from DOWNLOADS section. Use the enclosed PC USB Projects HEX Editor v3.0 to adapt a HEX file to your needs. You may also use the enclosed HEX files directly, if you want to make no changes. 

2. You need Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Sever 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2 or a later Microsoft operating system (a 32-bit or a 64-bit subversion) with .NET 4.0 or later and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.NET or later installed. All the operating systems above have inbuilt HID (human interface device) drivers, so you don't need to install any device drives, as if you would plug in a new standard USB mouse.

1. Build or buy a circuit with a desired microcontroller that is supported by PC USB Projects website software.