MicroChip 16/Pin-28/Bit Starter Kit

• Low-cost and allows the user to easily validate a development tool setup using a 28P DIP dsPIC30F/PIC24F/dsPIC33F devices.
• dsPIC33F devices include Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) for common, multi-loop Switch-Mode Power Supplies (SMPSs), including the dsPIC33FJ16GS504 44-pin device.
• Contains a socketed PIC24FJ64GA002, 28P DIP, USB port, power supply regulator, crystal oscillator, connectors for MPLAB ICD 3 In-circuit Debugger/Programmer and PICkit 2, single UART communication channel via USB bridge, header for access to all device I/O pins, circuit prototyping area including pads for SOIC and SOT-23 devices.
• http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en529760

Texas Instruments' Piccolo Control Stick: TMS32028027

• Quick and easy evaluation all of the advanced capabilities of TI's new Piccolo microcontroller
• Features on board emulation and access to all the I/O pins
• Works as a direct plug-in to Intusoft's Solar1TiM dual buck/boost SMPS board
• http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/tmdx28027usb.html
  

Intusoft's Solar1TiM SMPS Evaluation Board

• Provides a dual synchronous buck/boost SMPS, plus application for solar-driven household use
• Accepts 28-pin plug-in from MicroChip Starter Kit and Texas Instruments Piccolo