The LCD Explorer development board is a 8-Common LCD board for evaluation of the PIC24F and PIC18F LCD devices. The board comes with the PIC24FJ128GA310 PIM and supports Microchip’s 100-pin microcontrollers with x8 common Segment LCD Drivers. The LCD Explorer provides an ideal platform for a customer to evaluate a MCU with a x8 Common LCD Driver on a 38 segment x 8 common LCD display. The board has a PICtail plus connector to permit PICtail plus daughter cards to be utilized, allowing development of other functions such as wireless connectivity. There is a CTMU switch on the board to showcase touch sensing. The V_BAT battery back up feature allows for RTCC to run on V_BAT during V_DD loss.