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As of October 28, 2011, Microchip Technology Inc. reported that both of its factories in Thailand are continuing to operate normally, and are in no imminent danger of flooding because of where they are located (approximately 50 miles east of Bangkok). These photos were taken at Microchip’s Thailand facilities on October 27, 2011. For more information, visit: www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/press-release/microch...
Microchip announced the completion of its high-accuracy, 1-8 channel, single and poly-phase MCP391X energy-measurement Analog Front End (AFE) family. The new MCP3919 and MCP3912 members integrate three and four channels of 24-bit, delta-sigma Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC), respectively, with industry-leading accuracy of 93.5 dB SINAD, -107 dB THD and 112 dB SFDR for precise signal acquisition and higher-performing end products. These are the optimal numbers of channels for single-phase energy meters with neutral monitoring (3-channel); or single-phase, three-wire energy meters (4-channel). The high level of integration on the new AFEs also includes a low-drift voltage reference, programmable gain amplifiers, phase-delay compensation and cycle redundancy check (CRC). For more info, visit www.microchip.com/MCP3912
Microchip announced a new series within its PIC32MX1/2 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) family that features a large 256 KB Flash configuration and 16 KB of RAM in small-footprint packages. These latest additions to this popular MCU family provide flexibility to low-cost applications that need complex algorithms and application code, and they are coupled with Microchip’s comprehensive software and tools for designs in graphics, touch sensing and general-purpose embedded control. To learn more about Microchip’s 32-bit PIC32 MCUs, visit: www.microchip.com/PIC32-081115a
Microchip Technology's Machine-to-Machine (M2M) PICtail™ Daughter Board (part # AC320011) comes with all of the hardware, wireless-communication protocols and application-code examples needed to help designers jump start their fleet-management or location-based service application. The new Daughter Board interfaces with Microchip’s Multimedia Expansion Board (part # DM320005), and PIC32 Starter Kit (part # DM320001) to enable the quick and easy creation of designs offering communications, as well as a complete graphics interface, with audio, accelerometer and networking capabilities.
Microchip partnered with Kalki Technologies to provide a Device Language Message Specification (DLMS) protocol stack that is optimized for 16-bit PIC® microcontrollers (MCUs). The DLMS protocol has become the worldwide standard of choice among smart meter designers for interoperability among metering systems, including most energy types (electricity, gas, heat and water), multiple applications (residential, transmission and distribution), and numerous communication media (RS232, RS485, PSTN, GSM, GPRS, IPv4, PPP and PLC); as well as secure data access, via AES 128 encryption. For more information visit www.microchip.com/DLMS
Microchip announced the expansion of its Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) product line with the MCP48FXBXX families of devices. The six-member MCP48FEBXX DAC family offers integrated EEPROM to save DAC settings at power-down, while the MCP48FVBXX family provides lower-cost alternatives for applications that don’t require integrated memory. These low-power, single and dual-channel DACs feature 8, 10 and 12-bit resolution, a SPI serial interface, and are available in 10-pin MSOP packages. Examples of their wide range of applications in the consumer, industrial and automotive markets, among others, include set-point/offset trimming, sensor calibration, instrumentation, and motor control. To learn more about Microchip’s broad data-converter portfolio, including a series of short, informative videos, visit www.microchip.com/DACs-120215a.
Microchip Technology's single-I/O bus UNI/O® EEPROM devices are now available in miniature, Wafer-Level Chip-Scale and TO-92 packages, in addition to the 3-pin SOT-23 package.
Microchip's SSC7102 is a low-power, flexible and turnkey sensor hub that makes implementing sensor fusion easy and provides an extremely large selection of supported sensors. In fact, Microchip directly partnered with multiple industry-leading sensor manufacturers and sensor-fusion specialists to create this solution, enabling faster time to market without the need for sensor-fusion expertise. The SSC7102 is also extremely efficient. It consumes ~4 mA while running complex sensor-fusion algorithms, resulting in longer battery life for Windows® 8.1 tablets, laptops, ultrabooks and smart phones. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/9821
Mr. Geon-Mo Kang, VP of R&D at Samsung Electronics (left), receives trophy from Microchip Technology Inc. CEO Steve Sanghi (right), commemorating the shipment of Microchip's 10 billionth PIC® microcontroller (MCU) to Samsung. Microchip delivered this 10 billionth microcontroller, the 32-bit PIC32MX340F256, www.microchip.com/get/N46K, approximately 10 months after delivering its nine billionth.
Microchip Technology partnered with Cymbet Corporation to provide the world’s first customizable energy harvesting application development kit—the XLP 16-bit Energy Harvesting Development Kit. This kit includes a modular development board populated with the PIC24F16KA102 microcontroller—featuring eXtreme Low Power—and the capability to add PICtail™ daughter boards for the rapid evaluation of a wide variety of system functions, including ZigBee® and proprietary wireless connectivity, and SD memory cards. The PIC® microcontroller’s eXtreme Low Power technology allows users to gain the longest possible operation from the included Cymbet EnerChip™ EH Eval-08 Energy Harvesting Board, which harvests solar energy that is then stored in the EnerChip solid-state, rechargeable energy-storage devices. For more information, visit: www.microchip.com/energyharvesting
Microchip today added two new 3-phase Brushless DC (BLDC) motor gate drivers with integrated power module, LIN transceiver and Sleep mode—the MCP8025 and MCP8026 (MCP8025/6). These devices can power a broad range of Microchip’s dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) and PIC® microcontrollers (MCUs), complementing their control algorithms by driving MOSFETs, sensing current, preventing short circuits, outputting zero crosses, controlling dead time and blanking time, and monitoring for fault conditions such as over/under-voltage, over-temperature and other thermal warnings. This combination enables Microchip to provide a complete motor control and drive solution for a broad range of automotive and industrial applications. Additionally, the new drivers’ 150 degrees Celsius ambient temperature, low sleep current of 5 µA (typ.) and LIN transceiver make them particularly well suited for automotive designs, such as those that operate under the hood (e.g., pumps and HVAC blowers) or need to reduce key-off power consumption. The on-chip LIN transceiver is compliant with the LIN Bus 2.1 and SAE J2602 standards, as well as the previous-generation LIN 1.X standards. For more info, visit www.microchip.com/get/D3EG
UTC2000 Controller Enables Simple and Quick Implementation of Popular Reversible-Plug Connector for USB Devices and USB Cabling Into Wide Range of Applications.
Microchip announced the addition of the UTC2000, USB-C™ controller to its leading portfolio of USB devices. With this new device, designers of a wide range of applications covering the consumer, industrial and automotive markets can now simply and quickly implement the radically updated USB-C connector cost effectively, speeding time to market and minimizing bills of materials. Housed in a 16-pin QFN package, the UTC2000 controller’s small form factor also enables the deployment of USB-C connectors in mobile applications. To learn more about the USB-C connector revolution, visit: www.microchip.com/USB-C-081715a
To enable development with the LAN9353/4/5 Three-Port 10/100 Ethernet Switches, three Microchip evaluation boards were also added that support various system architectures. These hardware systems demonstrate how to interface with the switches through basic input/output connections, or with microcontrollers such as the 32-bit PIC32MX family via serial communications.
Each of these new evaluation boards is also supported by a Software Development Kit (SDK), which enables developers to immediately start device evaluation, familiarize themselves with features, and begin building solutions for their applications. All three evaluation boards, (part # EVB-LAN9353, $300), (part # EVB-LAN9354, $250) and (part # EVB-LAN9355 $300) are available now via any Microchip sales representative or authorized worldwide distributor, or from microchipDIRECT (www.microchipdirect.com). For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/Ethernet-Switches-071415a
Micochip's new three-phase BLDC motor gate driver with power module, the MCP8024. This new device includes functions that power dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) and PIC® microcontrollers (MCUs) with capabilities to drive six N-channel MOSFETs. Customers can implement improved performance and high robustness, providing increased efficiency and lowering system cost while reducing time to market. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/RTAS
Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced that it was chosen for the 2014 “Selling Power 50 Best Companies to Sell For” list. Each year, the corporate research team at Selling Power magazine assembles and publishes this list, which includes companies of all sizes, with sales forces ranging from fewer than 100 to those in the thousands. Microchip ranked 17th, moving up two places from 2013, and is still the only semiconductor company on the list. For more info, visit: www.sellingpower.com/2014/50-best-companies-to-sell-for/
Microchip announced its new SST11CP22 5 GHz power amplifier module (PAM) for the IEEE 802.11ac ultra high data rate Wi-Fi® standard. This PAM delivers 19 dBm linear output power at 1.8% dynamic EVM (Error Vector Magnitude) with MCS9 80 MHz bandwidth modulation. Additionally, the SST11CP22 delivers 20 dBm linear power at 3% EVM for 802.11a/n applications, is spectrum mask compliant up to 24 dBm for 802.11a communication, and has less than - 45 dBm/MHz RF harmonic output at this output power, making it easier for the system board to meet FCC regulations. To learn more about Microchip’s RF power amplifiers visit: www.microchip.com/Power-Amps-031715a
Microchip announced a new family of CAN FD (Flexible Data-Rate) transceivers, the MCP2561/2FD. As an interface between a CAN (Controller Area Network) protocol controller and the physical two-wire CAN bus, these transceivers can serve both the CAN and CAN FD protocols. This product family not only helps automotive and industrial manufacturers with today’s CAN communication needs, but also provides a path for the newer CAN FD networks that are increasingly in demand. To learn more about Microchip’s CAN transceivers visit www.microchip.com/MCP2561FD-032315a.
Microchip announced its first App Developer Specialist—WillowTree Apps—the latest company to join Microchip’s world-class Design Partner Network. This new App Developer Specialist category, which designates an exclusive focus on Web and native-app creation, builds on Microchip’s deep roster of traditional embedded hardware and software development design partners. WillowTree is an award-winning and experienced iOS, Android™ and Mobile Web app developer that enables Microchip’s customers to focus on the core of their Internet of Things designs and expedite development cycles, while ensuring an excellent mobile-interface experience for their users. Additionally, WillowTree wrote the first mobile app for Microchip’s Wi-Fi® Client Module Development Kit 1, which is newly available from the Apple® App StoreSM and enables customers to quickly get up and running with the kit’s cloud-based demo. WillowTree can also modify this cloud-demo app to suit a broad range of customer IoT design requirements. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/UXL2
Microchip announced the expansion of its Low Power PIC® microcontroller (MCU) portfolio. Features of the new PIC24F “GB6” family include up to 1 MB of Flash memory with Error Correction Code (ECC) and 32 KB of RAM, making it the first 16-bit MCU in Microchip’s portfolio to offer such a large memory size. Also featuring dual-partition Flash with Live Update capability, these devices can hold two independent software applications, permitting the simultaneous programming of one partition while executing application code from the other. This powerful combination of features makes the PIC24F “GB6” family ideal for industrial, computer, medical/fitness and portable applications that require a long battery life, and data transfer and storage without the need of external memory, such as electricity metering, HVAC control, fingerprint scanners and gaming. For more information of the GB6 family, visit: www.microchip.com/PIC24FGB6-112315a
Microchip added the LAN9353, LAN9354 and LAN9355 Three-Port, 10/100 Industrial Ethernet Switches to its reliable, high-quality, and high-performance portfolio of Ethernet solutions, which includes Ethernet switches, controllers, bridges and PHYs. Featuring the IEEE 1588-2008 Precision Time-stamp Protocol (PTP) standard for clock accuracy in the sub-nanosecond range, these highly integrated Ethernet switches offload both synchronization and communications processing from the host CPU. Developers can also take advantage of advanced features such as Transparent Clocking, which improves system accuracy. Additional features designed to reduce overall system power consumption include Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE802.3az), and Wake On LAN. These switches enable the development of advanced hardware in the rapidly growing Industrial Ethernet market, including automation, motion-control, embedded, automotive, security/surveillance and telecommunications applications. To learn more about Microchip’s portfolio of Ethernet Switches, visit: www.microchip.com/Ethernet-Switches-071415a
CNC electronics enclosure with a switched-mode power supply, a solid state relay for spindle control, three A3977 based stepper motor drivers for x, y, and z, a controller power supply, and the controller board. The controller is based on Microchip PIC18F8680, and the milling program is read off a USB stick using a VNC1L (the board is not shown). The whole system is controlled using a graphical touch screen LCD.
Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced its partnership with Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS) to provide customers with complete projected-capacitive touch (PCAP) and 3D-gesture interface modules, which will lead to faster development and lower costs. The modules will make it easier to design multi-touch and 3D gesture displays with Microchip’s award-winning GestIC® technology, which offers a hand tracking range of up to 20 centimeters (cm) from the display surface. Hand gestures are universal, hygienic and easy to learn. In addition, they enhance safety by reducing the need for precise hand-eye coordination.
To learn more about Microchip’s GestIC technology products, visit www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en_us/technology/gestic. Additionally, SiS modules with Microchip’s GestIC technology will be demonstrated at Microchip’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Booth MP25656 in Las Vegas, from January 6-9, 2016.
Microchip Technology's 14-member dsPIC33EP “GS” family of Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) delivers the performance needed to implement more sophisticated non-linear, predictive and adaptive control algorithms at higher switching frequencies. These advanced algorithms enable power supply designs that are more energy efficient and have better power supply specifications. Higher switching frequencies enable the development of physically smaller power supplies that offer higher densities and lower costs. Compared with the previous generation of DSCs, the new dsPIC33EP “GS” devices provide less than half the latency, when used in a three-pole three-zero compensator, and consume up to 80% less power in any application.
This new dsPIC33EP “GS” family includes advanced features such as Live Update Flash capability, which is especially helpful for high-availability or “always-on” systems. Live Update can be used to change the firmware of an operating power supply, including the active compensator calculation code, while maintaining continuous regulation. Variants from this new digital-power-optimized DSC family are available in an industry’s-smallest, 4 x 4 mm UQFN package for space-constrained designs. For more info, visit www.microchip.com/dsPIC33EP64GS506-051215a
Microchip’s PIC24FJ128GB204 Plug In Module for USB (part # MA240037, $25.00) is available now. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/GNUT
Microchip announced from Electronica in Germany an expansion of its 8-bit PIC® microcontroller (MCU) portfolio, with the peripheral-rich, low-pin count PIC16(L)F161X family. These new MCUs introduce and expand the offering of Microchip’s Core Independent Peripherals (CIP), which were designed to reduce interrupt latency, lower-power consumption and increase system efficiency, and safety, while minimizing design time and effort. These peripherals are designed to reduce system complexity by eliminating the need for additional code and external components. Hardware-based peripherals offload timing-critical and core-intensive functions from the CPU, allowing it to focus on other critical tasks within the system. For more ino, visit: www.microchip.com/PIC16_LF161X-Family-Product-Page-111114a
Microchip added a new member to its power-monitoring IC portfolio, the MCP39F511. This highly integrated and accurate single-phase power-monitoring IC, designed for the real-time measurement of AC power, combines the most popular power calculations with unique advanced features, making it ideal for use in high-performance commercial and industrial products such as lighting and heating systems, smart plugs, power meters and AC/DC power supplies. To learn more about the MCP39F511, visit www.microchip.com/MCP39F511-042115a. View a short video on Microchip’s metering products, here: www.microchip.com/Metering-042115a.
Microchip’s new power monitoring IC, the MCP39F501. This device is a highly integrated, single-phase power-monitoring IC designed for real-time measurement of AC power. It includes two 24-bit delta-sigma ADCs, a 16-bit calculation engine, EEPROM and a flexible two-wire interface. An integrated low-drift voltage reference in addition to 94.5 dB of SINAD performance on each measurement channel allows accurate designs with just 0.1 % error across a 4000:1 dynamic range. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/G8CX
Microchip’s UPD1001 Evaluation Kit (part # EVB-UPD1001, $299.00) is available now. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/PH85
Microchip announced the industry’s first MOST150 coaxial transceiver. Extending the usage of coaxial cabling to powerful automotive infotainment networks based on the latest MOST150 standard, the newly introduced OS82150 integrates a coaxial cable driver and coaxial cable receiver into a small-footprint, 4x4 mm QFN package. To learn more about MOST® technology, the de-facto networking standard for automotive infotainment, please visit www.microchip.com/MOST-090115a.
As of October 28, 2011, Microchip Technology Inc. reported that both of its factories in Thailand are continuing to operate normally, and are in no imminent danger of flooding because of where they are located (approximately 50 miles east of Bangkok). These photos were taken at Microchip’s Thailand facilities on October 27, 2011. For more information, visit: www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/press-release/microch...
Microchip announced from EE Live! and the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose the PIC16(L)F170X and PIC16(L)F171X family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), which combine a rich set of intelligent analog and core independent peripherals, along with cost-effective pricing and eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology. Available in 14-, 20-, 28-, and 40/44-pin packages, the 11-member PIC16F170X/171X family of MCUs integrates two Op Amps to drive analog control loops, sensor amplification and basic signal conditioning, while reducing system cost and board space. These new devices also offer built-in Zero Cross Detect (ZCD) to simplify TRIAC control and minimize the EMI caused by switching transients. Additionally, these are the first PIC16 MCUs with Peripheral Pin Select, a pin-mapping feature that gives designers the flexibility to designate the pinout of many peripheral functions. The PIC16F170X/171X are general-purpose MCUs that are ideal for a broad range of applications, such as consumer (home appliances, power tools, electric razors), portable medical (blood-pressure meters, blood-glucose meters, pedometers), LED lighting, battery charging, power supplies and motor control. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/H4FJ and www.microchip.com/get/4FJP
Microchip announced a new family of 3V Serial Quad I/O™ interface (or SQI™ interface) SuperFlash® memory devices—the SST26VF. This three-member “26 Series” SQI interface family is available with 16-Mbit, 32-Mbit or 64-Mbit of memory, and is manufactured using Microchip’s high-performance CMOS SuperFlash technology, which provides the industry’s fastest erase times and superior reliability. To learn more about the SST26VF, visit www.microchip.com/SST26VF064B-030915a.
Microchip announced the expansion of its Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) product line with the MCP48FXBXX families of devices. The six-member MCP48FEBXX DAC family offers integrated EEPROM to save DAC settings at power-down, while the MCP48FVBXX family provides lower-cost alternatives for applications that don’t require integrated memory. These low-power, single and dual-channel DACs feature 8, 10 and 12-bit resolution, a SPI serial interface, and are available in 10-pin MSOP packages. Examples of their wide range of applications in the consumer, industrial and automotive markets, among others, include set-point/offset trimming, sensor calibration, instrumentation, and motor control. To learn more about Microchip’s broad data-converter portfolio, including a series of short, informative videos, visit www.microchip.com/DACs-120215a.
This is the substrate that microchips are lithographically printed on. They're mass produced in this wafer form, and then later cut down, and packaged into dies. These particular wafers contain mostly RAM. They were manufactured for Ford Aerospace back in the mid 1980s.
If you view this image in it's original size, you can zoom all the way in, and resolve the details of individual transistors. Just a year or two later, that would no longer have been possible without much more powerful microscopes. The transistors etched onto these wafers are positively huge by modern standards...hundreds, or thousands of times larger.
I find the closeup look to be, by far, the more interesting of the two. Most of the disc isn't quite so damaged, but I kinda like highlighting the flaws. A cat may, or may not have sat on it/entertained himself with it at some point.
The four new members of Microchip's PIC16F1579 Family are offered in 14 to 20-pin packages with up to 28 KB of Flash and feature CIPs that enable functions in a broad range of applications, such as LED lighting and motor control. They are the first 8-bit PIC MCUs with four 16-bit PWMs that each have independent timers, for flexible output and signal generation functions, including edge, center-aligned and other output modes. System-communication functions are supported via serial interfaces for LIN and DMX connectivity, while the family’s intelligent analog integration enables signal and sensor interface functions. Learn more about the PIC16F1579 Family at www.microchip.com/PIC16F1579-072015a.
Microchip also introduced the EMC1182 Evaluation Board (part # ADM00516) today, to enable development with its new six-member family of temperature sensor ICs called the EMC118X. This board is available now for $ 29.99, from microchipDIRECT and any of Microchip’s authorized worldwide distributors. For more info, visit www.microchip.com/get/7TEL
Microchip’s 8-bit PIC® MCU Accessory Development Platform for iPod and iPhone accelerates the design of accessory products by supporting analog audio, video output, a programmable user interface, and charging capabilities. This platform supports all necessary connection and communication features via hardware and software. Microchip’s software library facilitates identification, authentication and all communication protocols, including a simple API and bootloading capability.