Building on the company’s IS202X portfolio of highly integrated SoC devices and modules, Microchip announces its next-gen dual-mode Bluetooth audio products. Uniquely engineered for speakers, headsets and gaming headphones, this flash-based platform offers ample flexibility and powerful design features, allowing audio manufacturers to easily incorporate wireless connectivity in streaming music and voice-command applications.

Microchip announces the company’s lowest power and most cost-effective family of 32-bit PIC32 MCUs. The PIC32MM family is the first PIC32 to feature core independent peripherals, designed to offload the CPU for lower power and lower system design cost. The PIC32MM devices are supported by the Microchip MPLAB Code Configurator (MCC) to help simplify and accelerate designs.

Microchip announces two next-gen BLE solutions with an easy-to-use ASCII-style command interface that makes the devices easy to configure and eliminates any complicated code compiling. The RN4870 and RN4871 support the latest Bluetooth 4.2 specification and have a Bluetooth stack on board with a scripting engine to enable standalone operation and eliminate MCU use for simple applications.

To manage the infotainment system networking functions in their global compact car platform, Microchip Technology has announced that General Motors (GM) is using Microchip’s Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) Intelligent Network Interface Controllers (INICs).This includes the Chevy Cruze, Chevy Volt, Opel Astra, Buick Excelle and Buick Verano. 

  Microchip has announced a modern and flexible GUI composer tool for developing GUIs for all PIC32 MCUs through Microchip’s Harmony Configurator and MPLAB X IDE.

Microchip has announced the availability of what the company claims to be the industry’s first complete LoRa technology evaluation kits. The kits provide customers with all the components required to create an LPWAN for North America in the 915MHz band (DV164140-2) or for Europe in the 868MHz band (DV164140-1).

A 32-bit MCU from Microchip, the CEC1302, features a hardware-based cryptography suite offering significant performance improvements over firmware-based solutions. The hardware crypto-enabled MCU makes it easy to add security to IoT devices, offering easy-to-use encryption and authentication for programming flexibility and increased levels of security.

Registration is now open for the 20th annual Microchip Worldwide MASTERs Conference at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix, Arizona. The conference will take place from August 17-20, 2016, with a pre-conference being held August 15-16. This year, in partnership with Mouser Electronics, Grant Imahara will be a special guest speaker.

Microchip Technology Incorporated has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Atmel Corporation. Microchip also announced that it expects it net sales for fiscal fourth quarter ended March 31st, 2016 to be an all-time record and between the mid-point and high end of the guidance of $552.0m to $568.5m it provided during its earning conference call on February 3rd, 2016.

Microchip Technology has announced that MOST150 technology has been implemented in the Volvo V90. Volvo Cars has been utilising Microchip’s technology for many years and recently began utilising MOST150, the latest MOST technology from Microchip. MOST150 is the first standard to provide a proven, automotive-ready physical layer for Ethernet packet transport inside vehicles in accordance with the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet specifications.

The MCP990Xfamily of System Management Bus (SMBus) temperature sensor ICs from Microchip are for monitoring of up to four channels in cold, outdoor and industrial low-temperature applications ranging from freezers and refrigerators to base stations and remote radio units. With ±1°C maximum accuracy for both external and internal diode temperatures from -40°C to +65°C, these ICs provide a low-cost, highly flexible solution where...

  Allowing users to increase accuracy and carefully control LED light output levels without sacrificing colour or light quality for reliable long-life applications, two digitally enhanced power analogue controllers have been unveiled by Microchip Technology.

Designed specifically for height-constrained telecomms, industrial and SSD applications, an integrated switching power module has been unveiled by Microchip. The MIC45404 integrates inductors and passive components in a 10x6x2mm thermally-enhanced package, which saves space, simplifies board design and eliminates concern over passive components that may introduce unexpected EMI.

Microchip announces an addition to its LoRa technology product line. The RN2903 wireless modem works with North American Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN) and is FCC certified for use in the 915MHz band. The RN2903 modem is designed to be an efficient way to add long-range LoRaWAN network capability to any embedded design by integrating a proven LoRaWAN protocol stack running on a low-power PIC MCU, along with the LoRa radio and embedded ...

Microchip announces the SCH322X family of feature-rich and flexible I/O controllers customised to the needs of industrial and embedded computing designers. This next-gen product family features smaller packages and long product lifecycles and allows for more cost-effective industrial and embedded applications. The SCH322X is available in both commercial and industrial operating temperature versions.

Microchip announces the 'industry’s first' development kit for integrated 2D projective-capacitive touch (PCAP) and 3D gesture recognition on displays: 2D/3D Touch and Gesture Development Kit (DV102014). The kit will provide designers with easy access to Microchip’s patented 2D and 3D GestIC sensing technology, allowing them to easily integrate 2D multi-touch and 3D hand gesture recognition into their display applications.

  Microchip announces its MPLAB Xpress Cloud-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE). This online development platform is the easiest way to get started with PIC MCUs, with zero downloads, sign-in or setup needed to start designing.

Featuring an extended voltage and larger temperature range, Microchip has announced a family of automotive-grade NOR Flash products. The SST26VF family is available in 16, 32 and 64Mb densities and operates at Automotive Grade 2 and 3, extending the operating voltage from 2.7 down to 2.3V and temperature up to +105°C.

Toyota Motor is continuing to roll out Microchip’s MOST50 Intelligent Network Interface Controllers (INICs) to power the infotainment systems throughout the company's vehicle line. The Lexus RX SUV is the latest deployment among a wide variety of the Toyota brands, which have been using MOST50 in their infotainment systems for several model years.

Microchip has announced an expansion to its power monitoring IC portfolio with the addition of the MCP39F511N. Capable of providing popular standard power calculations and event monitoring of two electrical loads, this device facilitates system design and reduces system cost of power monitoring wall outlets and smart plugs, power strips, AC/DC power supplies and power distribution applications.