AMICUS18 (AMICUS)

Amicus18 board is a world famous Arduino board. However the Amicus18 board uses a PICmicro microcontroller instead of an Atmel AVR type. It has exactly the same dimensions as the Arduino and all Arduino shields will physically fit on the Amicus18 board. The microcontroller used on the Amicus18 is the Microchip PIC18F25K20, it has 32768bytes of flash memory, 1536bytes RAM, & operates at 64MHz, which equates to 16 MIPS. There are 9- 10bit ADC inputs and two 10bit PWM outputs, comparators, a USART, SPI, I2C & 4 timers, each with various internal operations attached to them. Each of the microcontroller's I/O lines are brought out for use with external devices. Amicus18's microcontroller is also pre-programmed with a Boot loader that simplifies uploading of programs to the on-chip flash memory. Compared to other devices that typically need an external chip programmer, Amicus18 can be programmed via a USB cable that also serves as a means of power and communication to the board.