Power-One announced today that it entered into a non-exclusive, worldwide, Field of Use agreement with Microchip Technology Inc. for Digital Power Technology patents from Power-One. Digital Power Technology drives increased system efficiency, improved design flexibility, faster time to market, decreased board space requirements and lower system costs.

Microchip announces an expansion of its 8-bit PIC16F178X enhanced Mid-Range core microcontroller family with increased Flash memory densities; intelligent analogue and digital peripherals, such as on-chip 12-bit Analogue-to-Digital Converters, 16-bit PWMs, 8-bit and 5-bit Digital-to-Analogue Converters, operational amplifiers, and high-speed comparators with 50 ns response time; in addition to EUSART (including LIN), I2C and SPI interface periph...

Microchip Technology Inc today announced the expansion of its LIN portfolio with the LIN 2.1 and SAE J2602-2 compliant and low-power MCP2003A transceiver, MCP2021A, MCP2022A, MCP2025 and MCP2050 LIN System Basis Chips (SBCs), and PIC16F1829LIN System in Package (SiP). These devices include high integration options, such as a voltage regulator, windowed watchdog timer, battery monitor output and a MCU. Additionally, they feature high robustness,...

Microchip annonce le lancement de deux nouveaux microcontrôleurs PIC 8 bits, le PIC16F527 et le PIC16F570, qui allient la facilité d’utilisation des microcontrôleurs PIC et des périphériques analogiques économiques pour créer une famille au bon niveau d’intégration, adaptée à un large éventail d’applications. Intégrant un double module AOP (amplificateur opérationnel) un CAN 8 bits et deux comparateurs, ces microcontrôleurs se...

Microchip today announced two new 8-bit PIC microcontrollers—the PIC16F527 and PIC16F570, which combine the ease-of-use of a PIC MCU with low-cost analog peripherals to create a well-integrated, cost-effective family suitable for a wide range of applications.

Microchip Technology today announced a major expansion of its embedded-wireless portfolio from the DESIGN West/Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose. The Bluetooth additions include the PIC32 Bluetooth Audio Development Kit, featuring modules, stacks and CODECs, and XBee footprint-compatible socket modules with integrated stacks.

Microchip Technology Inc today announced the OS81118, the first MOST150 Intelligent Network Interface Controller (INIC) with a USB 2.0 high-speed device port and an integrated coax transceiver.

Microchip Technology today announced it is accepting registrations for its 17th annual Worldwide MASTERs Conference at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort in Phoenix, Arizona, with the Main Conference taking place from August 21-24, and a Pre-Conference on August 19 and 20, 2013.

Microchip annonce l’ajout de la famille économique PIC24 KM à son portefeuille de microcontrôleurs 16bits PIC24. Cette famille offre jusqu’à 16 Ko de mémoire Flash, 2 Ko de RAM et 512 octets de EEPROM, ainsi qu’un niveau élevé d’intégration des fonctionnalités analogiques, dans des boîtiers à peu de broches, idéal pour les applications économiques du marché automobile, du grand public, du secteur médical et industriel.

Microchip Technology today announced the expansion of its Embedded Code Source application store and embedded user community for PIC MCU software/firmware code examples, tools and utilities, which often include the source code.

The Microstick for 5V PIC24F K-series devices is a flexible, portable, USB powered development tool that supports Microchip's PIC24F KM and KA Microcontroller families for cost sensitive, low power applications that need 5V operation.

Microchip has today expanded its 16-bit PIC microcontroller portfolio with the low-cost PIC24F “KM” family. The PIC24F “KM” family offers up to 16 KB Flash, 2 KB RAM and 512B EEPROM, along with advanced analogue integration, in low pin-count options for cost-sensitive automotive, consumer, medical and industrial applications.

A quick overview of Microchip's smallest and lowest cost PIC MCU with I²C. The presentation includes a demonstration application illustrating one of many utilizations of this microcontroller.

Microchip today announced a new addition to its PIC12/16F15XX 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) family. The low-cost, low pin count PIC12LF1552 is Microchip’s smallest (2x3 mm UDFN package) and lowest-cost PIC MCU with hardware I2C support, and includes a four channel 10-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) with hardware Capacitive Voltage Divider (CVD) support for capacitive touch sensing.

Microchip Technology Inc today announced the release of Graphics Display Designer X (GDD X), Microchip’s enhanced visual design tool that provides a quick and easy way of creating Graphical User Interface (GUI) screens for applications using Microchip’s 16-or 32-bit PIC MCUs. With GDD X, developers have the freedom to work in the environment of their choice, including Windows, Linux or Mac OS operating systems.

Microchip annonce le lancement de la famille des MCP1755 et MCP1755S, des régulateurs de tension LDO (Low Dropout, à faible tension de déchet) en technologie CMOS, qui affichent des performances excellentes ainsi qu’une tension d’entrée et un courant de sortie élevés. Ces régulateurs LDO admettent une large plage de tensions d’entrée allant de 3,6 à 16 V et délivrent un courant de sortie de 300 mA à des tensions de sortie de 1,8 ...

Microchip Technology today announced from the Embedded World conference in Germany its BodyCom technology, which provides designers with the world’s first framework for using the human body as a secure communication channel. Compared to existing wireless methods, BodyCom technology provides lower energy consumption, while further increasing security via bidirectional authentication.

Microchip annonce, pour sa conférence à Embedded World en Allemagne, sa technologie BodyCom, qui permet aux concepteurs d’accéder à la première plateforme au monde utilisant le corps humain comme un canal de communication sécurisé. Comparée aux méthodes sans fil actuelles, la technologie BodyCom a une très faible consommation tout en renforçant la sécurité grâce à une authentification bidirectionnelle. N’ayant pas besoin d’a...

Microchip announce the MCP1755 and MCP1755S high-performance, high-input-voltage and high-output-current family of CMOS Low-Dropout voltage regulators. These LDOs can accept a wide input voltage range of 3.6-16V and deliver an output current of 300 mA at output voltages of 1.8-5.5V, while consuming only 68 µA of quiescent current (typical).

Business Development Manager, Kevin Belnap demonstrates the latest platforms for digital audio. These platforms are perfect for those developing Smartphone / Portable Music Player docks or audio mixing solutions.