by Chris Francis Microchip recently announced some microcontrollers for “safety critical applications”. I was interested to see what the difference was and how they might compare with other manufacturers’ microcontrollers aimed at similar applications. The first thing I found out was that there don’t seem to be many microcontrollers aimed at safety critical applications. The […]
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Microchip Introduces Cost-Effective 8-bit PIC® Microcontroller Family
Microchip Technology Inc., a provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced from EE Live! and the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose the PIC16(L)F170X and PIC16(L)F171X family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), which combine a rich set of intelligent analog and core independent peripherals, along with cost-effective pricing and eXtreme Low Power (XLP) […]
Microchip Announces New 5 GHz 50 ohm Matched WLAN Front End Module
Microchip Technology Inc., a provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, announced its new 5 GHz, 50 ohm Matched WLAN Front End Module (FEM)—the SST11LF04—for high data rate mobile device applications. The SST11LF04 features a transmitter power amplifier, a receiver low-noise amplifier with bypass and a low-loss, single-pole two-throw antenna switch for 5 GHz […]
Microchip Technology Acquires EqcoLogic
Microchip Technology Inc., a provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, announced the acquisition of EqcoLogic, an innovator in equalizer and coaxial transceiver products and technologies. EqcoLogic is a privately held, fabless semiconductor company based in Brussels, Belgium and a spin out of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The terms of the acquisition are confidential and […]
Microchip Announces First Embedded Firmware Development Framework
Microchip Technology Inc., a provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, announced the industry’s most comprehensive 32-bit microcontroller firmware development framework—MPLAB® Harmony. This framework is the first to integrate the licensing, resale and support of both Microchip and third-party middleware, drivers, libraries and real-time operating systems. Currently, Harmony includes third-party offerings from Express Logic, […]
Microchip’s PIC32MZ 32-bit MCUs Have Class-Leading Performance
Microchip Technology Inc., a provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, announced the new 24-member PIC32MZ Embedded Connectivity (EC) family of 32-bit MCUs. It provides class-leading performance of 330 DMIPS and 3.28 CoreMarks™/MHz, along with dual-panel, live-update Flash (up to 2 MB), large RAM (512 KB) and the connectivity peripherals—including a 10/100 Ethernet MAC, […]
Microchip Releases MOST150 Data Link Layer Specification
Microchip Technology Inc., a provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, announced that it has made available for license, on a royalty-bearing basis, its proprietary MOST150 Data Link Layer Specification. By making the key technologies available for the lower layers of MOST150, other semiconductor companies now have the opportunity to develop, manufacture and supply […]
Microchip Introduces New Family of Microcontrollers
Microchip Technology Inc. announced a new family of microcontrollers (MCUs) —the PIC24FJ128GC010. This family is an analog system on a chip that integrates a full analog signal chain, including Microchip’s first ever on-chip precision 16-bit ADC and 10 Msps 12-bit ADC, plus a DAC and dual operational amplifiers (op amps), along with extreme Low Power […]
SuperSpeed Certified USB3 Controller Hubs With On-Chip Programmable Memory
The four-member USB553XB-5000 family, which is SuperSpeed Logo Certified by the USB Implementers Forum and is the world’s first to integrate OTP Flash configuration memory. This UCH3 family is also flexible, as it includes a seven-port hybrid version with a certified four-port USB3 hub and three additional USB2 lanes. The remaining three family members feature […]
High-Speed CAN Transceivers Are Low Power and Highly Robust
The new family of High-Speed (HS) CAN transceivers like, the MCP2561/2. These new devices serve as an interface between a CAN protocol controller and the physical two-wire CAN bus. The new family of transceivers meet CAN specification requirement “GIFT ICT Group Conformance Test Specification V1.0” as verified by C&S Group GmbH in addition to other […]
