Microchip Technology 8-Bit Low-Power PIC® & AVR® Microcontroller Tools

Microchip Technology 8-Bit Low-Power PIC® and AVR® Microcontroller Tools are a portfolio of development boards with complete program and debug capabilities. The Microchip Technology boards offer low-power Curiosity Nano evaluation kits to support the next design. These kits are designed to integrate with MPLAB® Code Configurator (MCC), a free software plug-in for the award-winning MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The software provides a graphical interface to configure peripherals and functions specific to applications. Code examples are also available to help start development.

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8-Bit MCUs

The PIC microcontrollers (MCUs) and AVR MCUs are excellent for conserving power in battery-powered, connected applications like wearables, wireless sensor networks, and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Features

  • Low-power sleep modes with flexible wake-up sources
    • Sleep current down to 0.2nA
    • Lower-power self-wake-up sources: special low-power Brown-out Reset (BOR), Power-on Reset (POR), Watchdog Timer (WDT), Real-Time
    • Clock (RTC), INT, Asynchronous Master Clear Reset (MCLR), Analog Peripheral Manager (APM), Peripheral Module Disable (PMD)
    • 1–3 lower-power modes 
  • Flexible and advanced integrated peripherals
    • More than 40 Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs) to offload the CPU while enabling sensor interfacing, waveform control,
    • timing/measurements, logic/math, safety/monitoring, communications, and user interface functionality
    • Intelligent analog features include a 12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter with Computation (ADCC), op-amps, comparators, Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs), and more
  • Long battery life with robust and reliable features
    • Enable battery lifetime of 200+ years
    • Low-power supervisors for safer operation (BOR, WDT)
    • Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs) perform tasks at the lowest possible energy requirement
    • VBAT battery backup powered separately
    • Robustness in hostile environments
    • Low-power and robust touch-sensing technologies
  • Large portfolio and efficient performance across voltage range
    • 6–100 pins
    • Up to 384KB Flash
    • Up to 16KB RAM
    • 1.8V to 5.0V operation
    • Wide selection of package options
    • Peripherals run autonomously in low-power modes
Publicado: 2023-11-28 | Actualizado: 2024-01-15