# The Cerebot MX3cK by Digilent The Cerebot MX3cK is a microcontroller development board based on the Microchip PIC32MX320F128H, a member of the 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller family. It is compatible with Digilent’s line of Pmod™ peripheral modules and is suitable for use with the Microchip MPLAB® IDE tools. The Cerebot MX3cK is also compatible for use with the chipKIT™ MPIDE development environment. ChipKIT and MPIDE are PIC32-based systems compatible with many existing Arduino™ code examples, reference materials and other resources. The Cerebot MX3cK is designed to be easy to use and is suitable for use by anyone, from beginners to advanced users, for experimenting with electronics and embedded control systems. It is intended to be used with either the Multi-Platform IDE (i.e., MPIDE which is a modified Arduino IDE) or the Microchip MPLAB IDE. The kit contains everything needed to start developing embedded applications using the MPIDE. In order to use the MPLAB IDE, an additional programming/debugging device, such as a Microchip PICkit3, is required. The Cerebot MX3cK provides 42 I/O pins that support a number of peripheral functions, such as UART, SPI, and I2C™ ports, as well as five pulse-width modulated outputs and five external interrupt inputs. Eleven of the I/O pins can be used as analog inputs, in addition to their use as digital inputs and outputs.