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Microchip Announces New 8-, 14- and 20-pin Enhanced Mid-Range PIC Microcontrollers (MCUs)

2nd March 2010

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Microchip announces several new, peripheral-rich 8-bit PIC® microcontrollers (MCUs) with active currents of less than 50 µA/MHz and extremely low sleep currents. The PIC12F182X and PIC16F182X (PIC1XF182X) MCUs extend Microchip’s Enhanced Mid-range 8-bit core product line into the 8-pin segment, bringing the total number of Enhanced 8-bit core PIC MCUs to 16, in packages ranging from 8 to 64 pins. With their extreme low power and high levels of integration, including mTouch™ capacitive touch-sensing and multiple communications peripherals, the general-purpose PIC12F182X and PIC16F182X MCUs are well suited for a wide range of applications in the appliance; consumer; and automotive markets, among others.

/> nanoWatt XLP technology remains the standard for battery-friendly MCUs, and, when combined with extremely low active-current consumption of less than 50 µA/MHz, improves overall energy efficiency in a wide variety of applications. Microchip’s Enhanced Mid-range 8-bit architecture provides up to a 50% increase in performance, and 14 new instructions that result in up to 40% better C code execution efficiency over previous-generation 8-bit PIC16 MCUs. The PIC1XF182X MCUs include dual I2C™/SPI interfaces, more PWM outputs with independent time bases, and a Data Signal Modulator that enables designers to combine many functions into a single MCU.

Designers can use Microchip‘s complete suite of standard development tools with the new MCUs, including the user-friendly and free MPLAB® IDE, along with the HI-TECH C® compiler for PIC16 MCUs. Additionally, there is a variety of debugging hardware, from the popular PICkit 3 In-Circuit Debugger/Programmer, to the MPLAB ICD 3 In-Circuit Debugger, MPLAB PM3 Universal Device Programmer, and MPLAB REAL ICE™ In-Circuit Emulator. For more information, go to www.microchip.com/xlp.