Microchip annonce l’ajout du MTD6505 à son portefeuille de drivers sans capteurs à architecture sinusoïdale pour les moteurs de ventilateurs sans balais triphasés. Le MTD6505 est le premier driver autonome programmable par résistance autorisant la sélection de plusieurs plages de FCEM. Grâce à cette particularité unique, les ingénieurs peuvent concevoir un vaste éventail de caractéristiques de ventilateur à moteur sans balais triph...

Microchip announces the expansion of its sinusoidal, sensorless, 3-phase BLDC fan motor driver portfolio with the MTD6505, the industry’s first and only standalone, resistor-programmable driver that enables the selection of multiple back-EMF coefficient ranges. This unique feature allows engineers to design for a wide variety of 3-phase BLDC fan characteristics with a single cost-effective and flexible device, thus saving time and money by stan...

The MCP6N11 and MCP6V2x Wheatstone Bridge Reference Design demonstrates the performance of Microchip's MCP6N11 instrumentation amplifier (INA) and a traditional three op amp INA using Microchip's MCP6V26 and MCP6V27 auto-zeroed op amps. The input signal comes from an RTD temperature sensor in a Wheatstone bridge. Real world interference is added to the bridge's output, to provide realistic performance comparisons. Data is gathered and displayed o...

Microchip announces the lowest-cost development tool supporting 3.3V 16-bit and 32-bit PIC® microcontrollers (MCUs), as well as 16-bit dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) in 28-pin SPDIP packages. The flexible Microstick II tool features everything designers need to start development with these MCUs and DSCs, including an integrated debugger and programmer, user LED, reset button, and DUT socket for easy device swapping.

This video is provides additional information to assist in developing your AR10x0 or AR1100 touch screen solution. It explains the three main types of analog resistive touch screen sensors and presents the advantages of each sensor type to assist in determining the best sensor for your application.

Microchip announces the PIC12LF1840T48A which is the first in a family of single-chip devices that integrate an eXtreme Low Power (XLP), 8-bit PIC microcontroller with a sub-GHz RF transmitter. The PIC12LF1840T48A’s combination of features in a single, 14-pin TSSOP package makes it ideal for space-, power- and cost-constrained applications, such as remote keyless entry fobs for automobiles, garage doors and home security systems, as well as a ...

Microchip announces the MCP9808 silicon temperature sensor, which serves a broad range of applications by guaranteeing high accuracy of 0.5 degrees from -20 to +100 degrees Celsius, combined with high temperature resolution of 12 bits (0.0625 degrees Celsius/LSB). The MCP9808 comes in small MSOP and 2x3 mm DFN 8-pin packages, for space-constrained applications, and additional features include shutdown, an under/over-temperature monitor and a cri...

Microchip announces a new family of stand-alone Real-Time Clock/Calendar (RTCC) devices. The MCP795WXX/BXX RTCC devices have a 10 MHz SPI, non-volatile memory and an effective combination of features at a price lower than most competitors’ devices, including those with fewer features. The new devices reduce component counts and costs for applications which include smart-energy products, such as thermostats, power meters and commercial refrige...

Microchip annonce le lancement de son premier amplificateur d’instrumentation : le MCP6N11. Ce nouvel amplificateur de mesure intègre la technologie mCal, mise au point par Microchip. Cette technologie comprend un circuit de calibrage sur puce, qui autorise une faible tension d'offset initiale et offre un moyen de contrôler la dérive d’offset, ce qui apporte une meilleure précision dans le temps temps comme en température. La technolog...

Microchip announces the expansion of its enhanced core 16-bit dsPIC33 and PIC24 ‘E’ Digital Signal Controller and microcontroller (MCU) families. The new devices include on-chip op amps and Microchip’s Charge Time Measurement Unit (CTMU) peripheral to enable advanced features at a low cost, in user-interface, intelligent-sensing, general-purpose and motor-control applications. Pin-compatibility with existing 16-bit dsPIC33 DSCs and PIC24 ...

Microchip announces its first instrumentation amplifier, the MCP6N11. The new instrumentation amp features Microchip’s unique mCal technology, which is an on-chip calibration circuit that enables low initial offset voltage and a means of controlling offset drift, resulting in higher accuracy across time and temperature. The MCP6N11’s low-power CMOS process technology enables low power, whilst providing a gain bandwidth product of 500 kHz, and...

Microchip announces that the 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller (MCUs) now operate from -40°C to 105°C, extending their use into a wide range of robust applications in the communications, industrial, medical, automotive, appliance and renewable-energy markets. The newly-qualified V-Temp MCUs continue to provide the full range of PIC32 MCU features including peripherals for connectivity, graphics, audio, touch sensing and industrial CAN, to provide th...

Microchip annonce le lancement d’une nouvelle gamme de microcontrôleurs PIC32 32 bits avec peu de broches avec une performance de 61 DMIPS, dans des boîtiers réduits à 5 mm x 5 mm, idéaux pour les systèmes faibles coût avec des contraintes d'espaces. Les microcontrôleurs PIC32 « MX1 » et « MX2 » sont les microcontrôleurs PIC32 les plus petits et les moins chers du marché, et les premiers PIC32 à intégrer des périphériques audi...

Microchip announces an expansion of its Multi-Purpose Flash Plus (MPF+) memory portfolio, with the introduction of the SST39VF80xC and SST39VF160xC NOR Flash memory devices which combine small size, low power consumption and high performance. The SST39VF80xC offers 8 Mbit of memory, while the SST39VF160xC offers 16 Mbit of memory. Manufactured with high-performance CMOS SuperFlash technology, these low-power, 3V, x16 parallel NOR Flash devices fe...

Microchip Technology Inc announced a new series of low pin count 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers (MCUs) that provide 61 DMIPS of performance in packages as small as 5 mm x 5 mm for space-constrained and cost-sensitive designs. The PIC32 MX1 and MX2 MCUs are the smallest and lowest-cost PIC32 microcontrollers, and are the first PIC32s to feature dedicated audio and capacitive-sensing peripherals. These new MCUs include a host of additional useful f...

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...