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.