Microchip announces a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) PICtail™ daughter board (AC320011) which integrates all the hardware, wireless-communication protocols and application-code examples needed to help and drastically cut time-to-market for fleet-management or location-based service products.

Microchip announces the Power-Line Modem (PLM) PICtail Plus Daughter Board Development Kit (AC164142) that enables customers to easily incorporate power-line communication into their products.

Microchip announces the expansion of its family of stand-alone real-time clock/calendars (RTCCs). The MCP7940N builds on the success of the MCP794XX family, and offers battery switchover and timestamp for accurate timekeeping, digital trimming for time-of-day calibration and 64 bytes of SRAM.

Microchip Technology Inc today announced an expansion of its existing 28-/40-pin PIC16F72X microcontroller (MCU) family with two new 20-pin devices—the PIC16F(LF)720 and PIC16F(LF)721. The new MCUs feature low power consumption, making them suitable for various low-power and battery-powered applications. These MCUs offer up to 7 KB of self-write Flash program memory, a temperature-indicator module, an 8-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), a ...

Microchip annonce l'extension de sa famille de drivers de MOSFET avec les nouveaux drivers de MOSFET low side MCP14E6/7/8 et MCP14E9/10/11. Les nouveaux drivers viennent en complément des drivers low side 4,5 A MCP14E3/4/5 existants de Microchip en offrant des courants de sortie en pointe de 2 A et 3 A respectivement.

Microchip announced the expansion of its family of MOSFET drivers with the new MCP14E6/7/8 and MCP14E9/10/11 low-side MOSFET drivers. The new drivers complement Microchip’s existing 4.5A MCP14E3/4/5 low-side drivers by offering peak output currents of 2A and 3A respectively. This low-cost family has a wide operating voltage range of 4.5V to 18V and features enable input pins to provide a shutdown capability for conserving power.

Microchip annonce le lancement de cinq nouveaux microcontrôleurs associant le pilotage d'écrans LCD à la consommation la plus faible du marché, disponibles à un moindre coût, venant compléter sa gamme de composants 8 bits pour afficheurs LCD à segments.

Microchip announces an expansion of its 8-bit segmented LCD microcontroller (MCU) family with five new devices combining low-cost LCD control with industry-leading low power consumption. The PIC16LF190x MCUs enable the implementation of LCD into cost-sensitive power-efficient designs, such as security tokens, smart cards, medical devices, home appliances, key fobs and other segmented LCD applications. Featuring eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology...

Education has always been one of the key focus areas for Microchip Technology Inc., one of the leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions. It announced its first scholarship awards programme in India to recognize budding talent in embedded systems design and electronic engineering and provide upcoming talent the opportunity to work on the latest technology in embedded architecture and awarded 22 students from various coll...

Microchip announces the expansion of its 28-/40-pin PIC16F72x microcontroller (MCU) family with two new 20-pin devices. The PIC16F(LF)720 and PIC16F(LF)721 feature low power consumption, making them suitable for low-power and battery-powered applications. The addition of smaller pin-count options, with up to 7 KB of self-write Flash programme memory and a temperature indicator module, extends Microchip’s 8-bit MCU family into even lower-cost ...

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Microchip annonce le lancement de la famille des MCP47x6, des convertisseurs numériques-analogiques (CNA) faible consommation à simple canal venant compléter la gamme de CNA à mémoire non volatile du fabriquant.

Microchip announces the expansion of its non-volatile Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) product range with the MCP47x6 family of low-power, single-channel DACs. These new DACs feature buffered 8-, 10- and 12-bit voltage output options and integrated EEPROM in miniature 2 mm x 2 mm DFN, or 6-pin SOT-23 packages.

Microchip Technology Inc today announced the PIC18F “K80” 8-bit CAN microcontrollers (MCUs) featuring 1.8 – 5.5V operation and eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology, for the industry’s lowest sleep current consumption of less than 20 nA. The new MCUs also feature an on-chip 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a peripheral that enables mTouch™ capacitive touch-sensing user interfaces. They are ideal for applications in the automoti...

Microchip annonce le lancement des microcontrôleurs CAN 8 bits PIC18F K80 utilisables de 1,8 à 5,5 V, dotés de la technologie très faible consommation XLP et affichant la consommation en mode veille la plus basse du marché, inférieure à 20 nA. Ces nouveaux microcontrôleurs intègrent également un convertisseur analogique-numérique 12 bits et un périphérique compatible avec des interfaces utilisateurs tactiles capacitives mTouchTM. Ils...

Microchip announces the PIC18F “K80” 8-bit CAN microcontrollers (MCUs) featuring 1.8 to 5.5V operation and eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology, for the industry’s lowest sleep current consumption of less than 20nA. The new MCUs also feature an on-chip 12-bit Analogue-to-Digital Converter (ADC) and a peripheral which enables mTouch™ capacitive touch-sensing user interfaces. The new MCUs are ideal for automotive applications, such as body ...

Features and demonstration of the MCP2200.

Microchip announces the Bluetooth Evaluation Kit, which includes CandleDragon, Inc.’s dotstack™ demonstration Bluetooth Stack. The kit provides an easy, cost-effective and flexible add-on for embedded evaluation and development using many 16/32-bit PIC microcontrollers or dsPIC digital signal controllers (DSCs), using existing Microchip development tools.

Microchip announces the Bluetooth Evaluation Kit, which includes CandleDragon, Inc.’s dotstack™ demonstration Bluetooth Stack. The kit provides an easy, cost-effective and flexible add-on for embedded evaluation and development using many 16/32-bit PIC microcontrollers or dsPIC digital signal controllers (DSCs), using existing Microchip development tools.

Microchip annonce le lancement d'une nouvelle famille de microcontrôleurs 32 bits PIC32MX5/6/7, composée de 6 modèles différents, équipés des mêmes périphériques de connectivité Ethernet, CAN, USB et série, et dotés de nouvelles options de mémoires garantissant un meilleur rapport coût/efficacité. En outre, ces améliorations permettent une consommation moindre, de l’ordre de 0,5 mA/MHz en courant actif, une meilleure endurance...