It delivers the ability to collect, process and analyse data in real time.
In conjunction with Cloud IoT Core, the board is ideal for developing embedded applications for a range of use cases such as smart home and cities applications, in the healthcare sector, in intelligent lighting systems, or in sensor-based process and control automation solutions for Industry 4.0.
A major attraction will be potential savings in time and cost, as well as the security vulnerabilities that can come with large software frameworks and real-time operating systems (RTOS), enabling engineers that are not experts in networking or security to get their applications up and running quickly.
Along with a powerful, low-power, 16-bit PIC24F microcontroller that comes with core-independent peripherals, the board integrates the MCU with the advanced ATECC608A cryptographic secure-element coprocessor, a light and temperature sensor, and a fully certified industrial-grade IEEE802.11b/g/n IoT network controller module, which is easy to connect to a microcontroller via the SPI interface.
The PIC MCU delivers 16 MIPS operation running at 32MHz and offers 128KB of ECC flash memory, extendable to 256KB, and 16KB of RAM.
Low-power operation makes the board suitable for battery-operated, real-time sensing and control applications.
Shipping now from RS in the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions, the Microchip PIC-IoT WG development board is supported by the MPLAB X IDE and MPLAB Code Configurator (MCC) rapid prototyping tool.