Microchip Introduces New Line of Arm-Based PIC Microcontrollers
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Update time : 2022-10-22 11:09:27
Wireless connectivity has become a must-have feature in many products, but often adds cost and complexity to system designs because it must often be included as an add-on to larger applications. Microchip Technology Inc. today introduced the first family of Arm Cortex®-M4F-based PIC microcontrollers (MCUs) to address this wireless connectivity design challenge. The new family integrates Bluetooth low-power functionality directly into one of the system's most essential components and is supported by the industry's most comprehensive development ecosystem.
Our PIC32CX-BZ2 microcontroller family removes the barriers that make wireless applications difficult to bring to market, including usability issues and complexity challenges, regulatory certification barriers and long-term support issues," said Steve Caldwell, vice president of Microchip's Wireless Solutions business unit. The new product family tightly integrates wireless connectivity with microcontrollers, rooted in our decades of expertise and supported by a vertical manufacturing approach that includes ICs, Microchip's highly integrated software stack, in-house module manufacturing and customer-driven product discontinuation mechanisms." Microchip's PIC32CX-BZ2 family of products includes system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices as well as RF support modules certified to global regulations. In addition to Bluetooth low-power capabilities, the new family includes a Zigbee® protocol stack and over-the-air (OTA) update capabilities. Hardware features include a 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC), multiple timer/counter (TCC) channels for control, an on-board encryption engine, and an extensive set of interfaces for touch, CAN, sensors, displays, and other peripherals. The family's 1MB Flash memory supports large application code, multi-protocol wireless stacks and OTA updates. The AEC-Q100 Class 1 (125 °C) compliant package further simplifies wireless connectivity integration where highly robust solutions are required. The PIC32CX-BZ2 microcontroller family simplifies development with Microchip's MPLAB® Harmony 32-bit embedded software development framework. The integrated MPLAB code configurator enables developers to quickly begin prototyping the PIC32CX-BZ2 family using drag-and-drop automatic code generation. A large number of application code examples are hosted on GitHub and linked through the MPLAB Code Configurator and MPLAB Discover. The ecosystem's chip-down reference design kit and wireless design checkout service simplify RF design with the PIC32CX-BZ2 SoC. customers with little or no RF expertise can easily get started.
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