http://www.futureelectronics.com/en/Pages/index.aspx - This video explains the many uses of the evaluation boards and evaluation kits offered by Future Electronics. An evaluation board, or development board, is a printed circuit board containing the support logic that is needed for a programmer to become acquainted with a microcontroller and at the same time learn how to program it. An eval board usually contains a provision to be able to accept as well as run a program supplied by the user.