Touch-screen and touch-panel interfaces have rapidly assumed the position of input-medium-of-choice in a wide variety of application spaces, driven to a large extent by the success of portable products such as Apple's iPhone and iPad. Touch-driven interfaces have a long history prior to the current phase of widespread acceptance in the consumer electronics space; a wide variety of sensing technologies, and a great deal of ingenuity, have been app...

Microchip announces the availability of a development kit for embedded motor-control designs based on the Microchip dsPIC33 Digital Signal Controller (DSC). The Digilent Cerebot MC7 Development Kit addresses the growing interest in embedded motor control from the academic and hobbyist markets, and is ideal for learning about microcontrollers and real-world problem solving.

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced it won VDC Research’s annual Embeddy award for best in show, hardware category at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Boston Sept. 26 – 28. A winner was also named in the software category. Embeddy award winners were given an overall rating score of 1 to 5 and were selected based upon the corporate, technological and industr...

Microchip's scalable graphics solutions drive everything from a simple monochrome LCD to a full-color VGA display.

Microchip Technology announced it is accepting registrations for its 8th annual India MASTERs conferences, which will be held on 10-11 and 14-15 of November in Bangalore and Pune, respectively. The MASTERs Conferences are a valuable resource for designing with Microchip’s products that provide design engineers with an annual forum for sharing and exchanging technical information on the Company’s 8-, 16- and 32-bit PIC microcontrollers, hig...

Join Microchip Technology at the 2011 MASTERs conference Brazil, held in São Paulo on November 8th. Technical trainings will cover a broad range of topics and will be delivered in Portugese for all attendees

Microchip annonce ses nouveaux microcontrôleurs (MCU) PIC® 8 bits en boitiers 6 à 20 broches, dotés d'une ou plusieurs cellules logiques configurables et d'un haut niveau d'intégration des périphériques. Les microcontrôleurs PIC10F(LF)32x et PIC1xF(LF)150x sont chacun dotés de nouveaux périphériques, tels que les cellules logiques configurables (CLC), les générateurs de formes d'ondes complémentaires (CWG) et les oscillateurs à co...

Microchip Technology Inc., launched several new 8-bit PIC microcontrollers from the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston. The new MCUs feature configurable logic and a high level of peripheral integration in 6- to 20-pin packages. The PIC10F(LF)32X and PIC1XF(LF)150X MCUs also incorporate new peripherals, including Configurable Logic Cells (CLCs), Complementary Waveform Generators (CWGs) and Numerically Controlled Oscillators (NCOs), enabling f...

Microchip Technology Inc. today announced the MCP1754/MCP1754S low dropout regulators (LDOs). The devices feature a high PSRR of 70 dB at 1 kHz (typical), and a maximum output current of 150 mA at +125 degrees Celsius junction temperature. Both LDOs offer a high input voltage of 16V and an output voltage range of 1.8V to 5.5V, with standard output voltages of 2V, 2.5V, 2.8V, 3V, 3.3V, 4V and 5V, and output voltage tolerances of +/-2.0 percent ove...

Microchip Technology Inc. announced the shipment of its 10 billionth PIC microcontroller to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Microchip delivered this 10 billionth microcontroller, the 32-bit PIC32MX340F256, approximately 10 months after delivering its nine billionth.

Microchip annonce un partenariat avec Kalki Communication Technologies Ltd. (Kalkitech) visant à offrir une pile de protocole DLMS (Device Language Message Specification) optimisée pour les microcontrôleurs PIC® 16 bits. Le protocole DLMS est devenu la norme internationale pour les concepteurs de compteurs intelligents car il garantit l'interopérabilité entre les différents équipements de mesure de l’énergie, quel que soit le type d’...

Microchip annonce le lancement d’une nouvelle gamme de microcontrôleurs PIC® et contrôleurs de signal numérique (DSC) dsPIC® 16 bits permettant d’effectuer un contrôle avancé sur les systèmes à coût sensible à usage général ou de commande de moteur. Grâce à ces nouveaux composants, il est possible de créer des systèmes économiques de contrôle de moteur sans capteur, compatibles avec un vaste éventail d’algorithmes de com...

Microchip annonce le lancement par Digilent Incorporated du kit de développement basé sur un microcontrôleur 32 bits PIC32. Le kit de développement Digilent® 32MX7 Cerebot™ apporte une réponse à l’intérêt croissant des universitaires et amateurs pour les applications réseau et les applications embarquées, en les aidant à découvrir comment les microcontrôleurs peuvent résoudre des problèmes concrets. Le kit comprend une carte d...

Microchip annonce le lancement du contrôleur AR1100 mTouch™ pour écrans tactiles USB résistifs analogiques. Le contrôleur AR1100 est un composant USB plug and play hautes performances qui offre tous les avantages de la série des contrôleurs AR1000 pour écrans tactiles résistifs analogiques, ainsi que des possibilités avancées de calibrage si utilisé comme souris USB ou numériseur à une seule entrée. Le nouveau contrôleur est di...

Microchip announces the MCP1754/MCP1754S low dropout regulators (LDOs) which feature a high typical PSRR of 70 dB at 1 kHz, and a maximum output current of 150 mA at a junction temperature of +125 degrees Celsius. Both LDOs offer a high input voltage of 16V; an output voltage range of 1.8V to 5.5V, with standard output voltages of 2V, 2.5V, 2.8V, 3V, 3.3V, 4V and 5V; and output voltage tolerances of +/-2.0 percent over the entire temperature rang...

Microchip announces the Power-Line Modem PICtail Plus Daughter Board Development Kit (AC164145) for the utility frequency band. The kit supports the development of products which communicate using the same wiring that provides power, allowing instant networks to be created at low system and deployment costs. The kit provides communication over power lines using a Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) modulation scheme, with the on-board modem using...

Microchip Technology Inc. has announced the MCP6V2X family of operational amplifiers (op amps). The new devices feature a self-correcting auto-zero architecture, which enables ultra-high precision, including an input offset voltage of just 2 microvolts and a gain bandwidth product of 2 MHz. With low noise of 50 nV/root Hz, the MCP6V2X family is a lower-noise alternative to Microchip’s existing family of auto-zero op amps.

Microchip has launched the mTouch AR1100 Analog Resistive USB Touch-Screen Controller. Building upon the AR1000 Analog Resistive Touch-Screen Controller series, the AR1100 controller is a high-performance, USB plug-and-play device that offers advanced calibration capabilities as a USB mouse or single-input digitizer. The new controller is available as a turnkey chip or board product, supporting all 4-/5-/8-wire touch screens, with free drivers ...

Controller Available as Turnkey Chip or Board Product, With Free Drivers for Most Major Operating Systems

Microchip Technology Inc has announced the new SST11CP15 RF power amplifier for 5 GHz IEE 802.11a/n WLAN embedded applications. The device operates on the 4.9 to 5.9 GHz band, and offers a wide operating voltage of 3.3V to 5V. The SST11CP15 features a high linear output power of 18 dBm at 2.5 percent EVM, using 802.11a OFDM 54 Mbps at 3.3V, and 20 dBm at 5.0V, and offers an output power of 23 dBm at mask compliance of 6 Mbps, at 3.3V