The UNI/O® Bus Parasitic Power Demo Board is designed to illustrate how a standard half-wave rectifier and capacitor circuit can be used to parasitically extract power for a UNI/O device from the SCIO signal as described in application note, AN1213 “Powering a UNI/O® Bus Device Through SCIO”. This reduces the number of connections necessary for adding a UNI/O device to your application down to two: SCIO and Vss.
The board is designed to interface with MPLAB® Serial Memory Starter Kit, but the included test points allow you to interface the board with any application through the use of test leads (not included).