PIC32CM PL10 Curiosity Nano

Overview

The PIC32CM PL10 Curiosity Nano evaluation kit (EV10P22A) is a hardware platform for evaluating the PIC32CM PL10 family of microcontrollers. This board features the PIC32CM6408PL10048 microcontroller mounted on the board.

Hardware

  • PIC32CM6408PL10048 MCU

  • Arm Cortex-M0+ Core with Speeds up to 24 MHz Across a Supply Voltage Range of 1.8-5.5V

  • 64 KB In-System Self-Programmable Flash with 8 KB SRAM

  • Operating Voltage: 1.8-5.5V

  • Available in 48-Pin TQFP and 48-Pin VQFN WF Packages

  • Low Power

    • Idle and Standby sleep modes

    • Sleep Walking peripherals

  • Multi-Voltage I/O (MVIO)

  • Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC) with 25 Self-Capacitance Channels

  • One 12-bit, 800 ksps Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)

  • Two Analog Comparators (AC) with Window Compare Function

  • Four 16-bit Timer/Counters:

    • Three 16-bit basic Timer/Counters (TC0-2)

    • One 16-bit Timer/Counter for Control with four PWM channels (TCC0)

  • 32-bit Real Time Counter (RTC) with Clock/Calendar Function

  • Two Serial Communication Interfaces (SERCOM), Configurable to Operate as:

    • USART with full-duplex and single-wire half-duplex configuration

    • ISO7816 UART

    • I2C up to 1 MHz (SERCOM0)

    • SPI

    • LIN Host/Client

    • RS-485

  • Two-Channel Direct Memory Access Controller (DMAC) with CRC Generator

  • Four-channel Event System (EVSYS)

  • Configurable Custom Logic (CCL) with Four Look-Up Tables (LUT)

  • Programming and Debugging Interface Disable (PDID) Functionality

  • Watchdog Timer (WDT)

  • External Crystal Oscillator with Failure Detection

  • Integrated Temperature Sensor

Supported Features

The pic32cm_pl10_cnano board supports the hardware features listed below.

on-chip / on-board
Feature integrated in the SoC / present on the board.
2 / 2
Number of instances that are enabled / disabled.
Click on the label to see the first instance of this feature in the board/SoC DTS files.
vnd,foo
Compatible string for the Devicetree binding matching the feature.
Click on the link to view the binding documentation.

pic32cm_pl10_cnano/pic32cm6408pl10048 target

Type

Location

Description

Compatible

CPU

on-chip

ARM Cortex-M0+ CPU1

arm,cortex-m0+

GPIO & Headers

on-chip

Microchip Port G1 GPIO11

microchip,port-g1-gpio

Interrupt controller

on-chip

ARMv6-M NVIC (Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller) controller1

arm,v6m-nvic

LED

on-board

Group of GPIO-controlled LEDs1

gpio-leds

MTD

on-chip

Flash node1

soc-nv-flash

on-board

Fixed partitions of a flash (or other non-volatile storage) memory1

fixed-partitions

SRAM

on-chip

Generic on-chip SRAM1

mmio-sram

Timer

on-chip

ARMv6-M System Tick1

arm,armv6m-systick

Connections and IOs

The PIC32CM PL10 Curiosity Nano User Guide has detailed information about board connections.

Programming & Debugging

The pic32cm_pl10_cnano board supports the runners and associated west commands listed below.

flash debug debugserver attach rtt
pyocd ✅ (default) ✅ (default) ✅ ✅ ✅

Setting Up the Debug Interface

PyOCD Setup

  1. Install Device Pack

    • Add support for the PIC32CM family devices using the following command:

    pyocd pack install pic32cm

  2. Verify Device Support

    • Confirm that the target is recognized:

    pyocd list --targets

    • You should see an entry similar to:

    pic32cm6408pl10048        Microchip                PIC32CM6408PL10048           PIC32CM-PL   pack

  3. Connect the Board

    • Connect the DEBUG USB port on the board to your host machine.

    • This connection power up the board and provides access to the on-board Embedded Debugger (EDBG), which enables programming and debugging of the target microcontroller through PyOCD.

Building and Flashing the Application

  1. Build the Application

    You can build a sample Zephyr application, such as Blinky, using the west tool. Run the following commands from your Zephyr workspace:

    west build -b pic32cm_pl10_cnano -p -s samples/basic/blinky

    This will build the Blinky application for the pic32cm_pl10_cnano board.

  2. Flash the Device

    Once the build completes, flash the firmware using:

    west flash

  3. Observe the Result

    After flashing, LED0 on the board should start blinking, indicating that the application is running successfully.

References

PIC32CM PL10 Product Page:

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/PIC32CM6408PL10048

PIC32CM PL10 Curiosity Nano evaluation kit Page:

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/development-tool/ev10p22a