Microchip continues to expand its innovative 8-bit PIC® microcontrollers with Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs). These devices allow you to perform application functions autonomously in hardware instead of software. They are supported by MPLAB® Code Configurator, a free graphical programming environment that reduces development time.
Our 16-bit microcontroller and digital signal controller families deliver performance, peripherals, software and hardware development tools. The 16-bit family is comprised of several subfamilies ranging from 4 KB to 1024 KB of Flash in 14 to 144 pins, with packages as small as 4 × 4 mm.
The PIC32 family delivers 32-bit performance and more memory to solve increasingly complex embedded system design challenges. From simple USB device connectivity to RTOS-driven graphical user interface applications with advanced audio processing, PIC32 devices can meet your most demanding design requirements.
Microchip offers a broad portfolio of linear products featuring Amplifiers, Comparators, Programmable and Selectable Gain Amplifiers (PGAs/SGAs). Low power consumption and small form factor make these products ideal for a wide variety of applications in industrial, medical, consumer and automotive markets.
With Gain-Bandwidth Products (GBWP) ranging from 9 kHz up to 410 MHz, Microchip's broad offering of both general purpose and precision operational amplifiers features low quiescent current for the given GBWP. These devices meet AEC-Q100 qualification and enhanced Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Rejection is available on a growing number of device families. This amplifier portfolio is ideally suited to low-power, environmentally sensitive and performance-demanding applications in the industrial, automotive, medical, consumer and Internet of Things markets.
Our high precision instrumentation amplifiers (INAs) are well suited for applications requiring low operating voltage and current, optimum performance and small form factor in the industrial, medical, consumer and Internet of Things markets.
Microchip provides a diverse portfolio of comparators including ultra low power, high speed, higher voltage and windowed comparators.
Our Programmable Gain Amplifiers (PGAs) demonstrate high-speed and low offset with the ability to control gain and channel through a SPI port.
Optimized for single-supply applications requiring reasonable quiescent current and speed, our Selectable Gain Amplifiers (SGA) can be configured for multiple gains through the Gain Select input pin(s).
Our power/current sensors are dedicated power sensing monitors. Some have integrated temperature sensors, making them ideal for many applications.
As a leading provider of Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST®) technology, Microchip develops, markets and supports IP, silicon, network management software and tools for this standard in automotive infotainment networking. Physical layer solutions for optical, coaxial and Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) to enable infotainment, advanced driver assist systems, backbone, vehicle diagnostics and consumer connectivity applications. Other connectivity products include automotive Ethernet PHYs and switches, Ethernet-to-USB bridges and widely adopted USB consumer device connectivity solutions.
Enabling a variety of next-generation HD digital video applications, Microchip's video equalizer devices support simultaneous downlink, uplink and power over a single coaxial cable. Depending on the device, they support data speeds from 270 Mbps up to 6 Gbps for video downlink and from 5 to 20 Mbps uplink for camera control over distances that can reach up to 68 meters.
Designed to transmit bidirectional data and power over conventional coaxial cables, Microchip transceivers are able to transmit at speeds up to 6.25 Gbps and receive at speeds up to 20 Mbps. Some devices support CoaXPress® technology, an asymmetric (high-speed one way, low-speed the other) serial communication standard for the transmission of video and still images. This enables transceivers to transmit image data from the camera, and control signals and trigger information from the frame grabber to the camera, making local power supplies unnecessary.
Data and video sub-system products include 1394b coax active connectors, CoaXPress® evaluation boards, an HD-SDI repeater, Fast Ethernet over Coax modules and a Gigabit Ethernet over Coax SFP module.
The data converter portfolio features a wide range of devices, including A/D converters with a variety of speeds and resolutions, high-end energy and power measurement solutions, D/A converters and many families of digital potentiometers. All devices feature low power operation.
Our A/D converters are available in a wide range of speeds and resolutions, delivering high accuracy and low power per given sampling speed.
Microchip offers low-power, compact digital potentiometers (Digipots) with 6 to 8 bits of resolution, 1 to 4 channel counts, and volatile or non-volatile memory. High voltage digital potentiometers (digipots) than support 10V to 36V or +/-5V to +/-18V voltage range is available. Miniature packaging option such as 6-pin SC-70 or 2 x 3 mm DFN is also available.
Microchip’s low cost Digital to Analog converter (DAC) product families feature low power operation down to 175 µA with 8-, 10- and 12-bit resolutions. The unique non-volatile memory option allows DAC configuration to be saved at power down and reduces Micro-controller overhead. Small form factor options such as 6-pin SOT-23 packaging is also available.
Our Energy Measurement products enable accurate measurement of energy for electricity metering and power monitoring solutions. Some devices offer on-chip active power calculations while others simply offer high-end Analog-to-Digital Converters for high accuracy measurement with firmware available to perform the power calculations on any of our PIC® microcontrollers.
The TC9400/1/2 are low-cost frequency-to-voltage (F/V) converters that accept a variable analog input signal and generate an output pulse train whose frequency is linearly proportional to the input voltage, as well as being used as highly-accurate frequency-to-voltage (F/V) converters.
Our power/current sensors are dedicated power sensing monitors. Some have integrated temperature sensors, making them ideal for many applications.
Microchip offers families of series and shunt voltage references. These devices provide a stable reference for data converter applications with low power and high accuracy options.
Microchip provides award-winning development tool solutions to fit every embedded design application. Our MPLAB® X programming platform is compatible with all our microcontrollers, including 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit, DSC and periphery products. Support for your embedded designs begin here with free tutorials and webinars, a full range of documentation, free software downloads and evaluations, and 24/7 support center.
MPLAB® XC Compilers produce highly optimized code. The PRO edition has the most features and produces the best code optimization. A low-cost option of the compiler is also available as the Standard Edition. MPLAB XC Compiler licenses are also available as Free editions and have the option of a 60-day PRO evaluation trial.
Microchip's MPLAB® REAL ICE™ In-Circuit Emulator is a modern emulator that supports hardware and software development for most Flash PIC® microcontrollers (MCUs) and dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), leveraging the easy-to-use and powerful graphical user interface of MPLAB X IDE.
MPLAB® X IDE is a free, integrated development environment incorporating a powerful and higly functional set of features. It allows users to easily develop applications for Microchip's PIC® microcontrollers and dsPIC® digital signal controllers. It is based on the NetBeans IDE from Oracle and runs on Windows®, Linux® and OS X® operating systems. Its unified graphical user interface (GUI) helps to integrate software and hardware development tools from Microchip and third-party sources to give you high-performance application development and extensive debugging capabilities.
Microchip offers many ready-to-use software solutions, such as MPLAB® Code Configurator and MPLAB Harmony, that support development with PIC® microcontrollers and dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers. The Microchip Libraries for Application (MLA) and standalone Embedded Code Source website provide additional resources to assist with your application development.
Third-party programmers are available to complement Microchip's own suite of development tools. For example, the low-cost, handheld in-circuit programmer from CCS supports the PIC10, PIC12, PIC14, PIC16, PIC18 and PIC24 families of MCUs and dsPIC® DSC families. The chipKIT™ PGM by Digilent is a simple, low-cost module that supports in-system programming and debugging of applications written for PIC32 MCU-based chipKIT™ boards and the dsPIC33-based Cerebot MC7 advanced motor control board.
These drivers are used to boost input voltages to the high voltages needed to drive electroluminescence lamps which provide backlighting for applications such as keyboards, instrumentation, electronic signage and gaming displays. They can drive 1–3 display channels over a wide range of input voltages (1.0–1.6V to 50–200V).
These automotive-qualified devices deliver accurate LED current control and rejection of input voltage transients for automotive applications such as LED headlamps, daytime running lights and turn signals. They reduce system cost while supporting a wide range of power levels and applications.
Our line of switching LED drivers converts a high voltage input (up to AC mains) to a lower voltage output (Buck) while providing regulated current to LED strings. They minimize LED driver system cost while delivering accurate performance with smooth dimming and no 120 Hz flicker. They offer the simplest solution on the market with accurate average-mode current control for backlighting/boost, general lighting/bulb replacement and automotive applications.
Microchip's line of DC/DC LED drivers convert DC input voltage to a different DC voltage required to drive individual LEDs or strings of LEDs at a regulated constant current. They offer high accuracy current regulation and excellent dimming performance, while simplifying designs by reducing the number of external components required. They are well-suited for MRXX halogen bulb replacement as well as for signage and architectural, general purpose and decorative lighting applications.
Microchip's family of linear current regulators offer the best price/performance ratio available today.
These devices can be used to drive a long string or strings of inexpensive, low-current LEDs directly from the AC mains. No magnetics or electrolytic capacitors are required, which helps reduce costs while delivering higher reliability in applications such as AC mains powered LED lighting—particularly tube retrofits—high bay lighting and street lighting. They offer a high power factor (> 0.95) and are compatible with standard triac dimmers to simplify the implementation of dimming functionality.
With over 20 years of experience in proactively supporting the unique industry requirements for embedded computing, Microchip is continuing to develop and invest in embedded and industrial microcontrollers and is committed to supporting these product lines well into the future.
Desktop & Super I/O devices combine legacy functions with hardware monitoring and general purpose I/O in a single chip, which reduces the overall number of chips required in your product design.
As a leading provider of high-performance, feature-rich mobile embedded controllers, Microchip has years of expertise in serving many of the world's leading PC OEMs. Our highly optimized devices provide a broad range of functions for notebooks, ultrabooks, tablets, convertibles and keyboards.
As a leader in providing I/O solutions for non-PC or embedded computing platforms, we offer a growing line of I/O expanders that range from 6 to 100+ input/output ports and that are available in a variety of packages to meet your design's requirements.
Developing applications with motion/position sensors can require sophisticated knowledge and significant resources. Recognizing how difficult this can be, Microchip has developed solutions that make it easy to design motion-based applications.
Microchip acquired SMSC in August 2012. Microchip is investing heavily in the technology to continue the proud history of leadership in integrated circuit products for computing applications.
High Voltage Interface products provide level translation and amplification, connecting low voltage control circuits to other high voltage circuits for one to multiple signals. Products vary from simple MOSFETs of different types to complex HV ICs. Different digital interfaces include simple digital inputs, to more complex protocols such as SPI, I2C, with data rates to 10s of MHz. The more complex IC products enable serial to parallel conversion functionality, supporting voltages to 300V, with output channel count ranging from as few as 4 to as many as 128, and other features.
Low current MOSFETs used to provide protection, biasing, as well as drive and level translation for a broad range of applications, with voltage ratings ranging 10V to 700V. Families include Depletion-Mode N-Channel, Enhancement-Mode N-Channel, Enhancement-Mode P-Channel, Complimentary MOSFET Arrays, and Enhancement-Mode N-Channel Arrays.
Microchip offers HV Source, Sink and Source-Sink Driver Arrays that provide level translation and high voltage drive for multiple signals. Channel counts range from a few to 100+, with voltage ratings from 50 to 300, with a mix of control, routing, protection, and package options.
HV Driver Amplifiers provide level translation and high voltage amplifiers for multiple signals. Different digital interfaces include simple digital inputs, to more complex protocols. The Arrays provide amplified signals, supporting voltages up to 300V with output channel count up to 32. , with and other control and protection features. The HV Amplifier series largely finds application in capacitive drive applications, such as drivers for MEMS analog mirrors for laser beam steering as used in networking, LIDAR, imaging, and other applications.
Microchip offers high-voltage interface for application specific use such as liquid-lens driver, complimentary MOSFET level translator and driver, high-side current monitor, fault protection and relay driver and controller.
Microchip offers a broad family of interface products including Real-Time Clock/Calendar, CAN Communication, Ethernet, I/O Expanders, Infrared, LIN Bus Transceivers, and USB.
ARCNET® has many characteristics that make it ideal for industrial and embedded networking environments. Microchip is the market leader in ARCNET devices and has a full spectrum of solutions to meet any customer's price and performance needs.
Bring communication and connectivity in your embedded design to the next level with Controller Area Network (CAN) bus solutions from Microchip. Originally created for automotive applications, the CAN serial bus protocol is a high-speed, reliable communication protocol for applications requiring robust communications at bit rates reaching 1 Mbps.
CoaXPress (CXP), used for machine vision, factory automation, video traffic monitoring and large display systems, is an asymmetric, high-speed, point-to-point serial communication standard for the transmission of video and still images. It is scalable over single or multiple coaxial cables with simultaneous uplink control and power-over-coax to power the remote camera. CoaXPress is capable of speeds from 1.25 Gbps to 6.25 Gbps, with a roadmap to 12.5 Gbps.
As a reliable, worldwide supplier with in-depth expertise in embedded Ethernet, Microchip offers long-term solutions and support for a complete portfolio of Ethernet products that can quickly enable your Ethernet connectivity needs.
Microchip's Infrared products are designed to meet a variety of application needs with distinct advantages that enable the embedded system designer to easily add infrared wireless connectivity. Microchip's product offering includes simple bit encoding/decoding devices to complex products that embed the IrDA® protocol stack PLUS bit encoding/decoding functionality on one small 18-pin device.
Local Interconnect Network (LIN) has been widely adopted by the automotive industry to support the increasing number of distributed electronic systems in today's vehicles. It enables the OEMs to design cleaner, safer, smarter and more efficient vehicles while addressing design challenges such as lower system cost, lower power consumption and weight reduction. Microchip offers a range of products and development tools to provide a complete and reliable LIN design solution.
Microchip's Serial Peripherals incorporate either 8-bit or 16-bit input/output port expander with interrupt output. Address inputs range from 2 to 3 inputs and support up to 8 devices on one bus. Most devices also have internal power-on-reset (POR).
Versatile, cost-effective and power-efficient USB smart hubs, bridges, switches, transceivers, port power controllers, and now USB-C™/power delivery controllers deliver industry-leading performance with unique technologies to enhance your products and applications.
Microchip has been a leading supplier of memory products for over 20 years. Microchip's broad portfolio of memory devices includes Serial EEPROM, Serial Flash, Parallel Flash, Serial SRAM and NVSRAM. Innovative low power designs and extensive testing have ensured industry leading robustness and endurance along with best-in-class quality.
Take advantage of the broadest range of Serial EEPROM products. Our Serial EEPROMs are low-power, non-volatile devices with robust operating ranges, small-size and byte-alterability, making them ideal for data and program storage. Innovative low-power design and extensive testing have ensured industry-leading endurance and best-in-class quality.
Add external RAM to almost any application easily and inexpensively. Microchip's Serial SRAM devices use less power and fewer I/O connections than traditional parallel SRAM, and they allow you to use a smaller microcontroller with additional on-board RAM. Our SPI-compatible Serial SRAM devices are available in 64 Kbit, 256 Kbit, 512 Kbit and 1 Mbit options and with clock speeds up to 20 MHz.
Designed for a wide variety of applications in consumer electronics, computing, networking and industrial spaces, Microchip's Serial Flash (25 and 26 Series) devices offer a small form factor, standard pinouts and command sets and cost-competitive pricing. Their CMOS SuperFlash® technology boosts data retention and endurance and reduces erase time and power consumption.
Multi-Purpose Flash (MPF) and Multi-Purpose Flash Plus (MPF+) make up a family of Parallel Flash memory products that deliver high performance, low-power consumption, superior reliability and small sector size. Based on Microchip's SuperFlash® technology, MPF and MPF+ provide faster program, erase and read times than conventional Flash, thereby saving power consumption and increasing manufacturing throughput.
Microchip offers a broad range of standalone motor controllers/drivers and MCU companion ICs for BLDC (brushless DC), PMS (Permanent Magnetic Synchronous Motor), brush DC, and stepper motors.The family of three-phase brushless sensorless sinusoidal motor drivers can be interfaced with any microcontrollers by using a simple PWM, or can also be used standalone in the application. Microchip's feature-rich companion ICs and wide selections of PIC® MCUs and dsPIC® DSCs are well suited for a complete solution in consumer, industrial and automotive motor control applications.
No matter which topology or approach you choose, Microchip can support your design with our comprehensive portfolio of Intelligent Power products, which covers the spectrum from discrete analog solutions to sophisticated and flexible power conversion using our digital signal controllers (DSCs). Our integrated products help you simplify your board design and build more cost-effective and reliable systems. To help polish off your design, Microchip offers a variety of other devices such as op amps, temperature sensors, current sensors and MOSFETs.
Microchip's battery management products offer highly integrated solutions for Li-Ion / Li-Polymer charge management applications.
Easy-to-implement, inductorless, high-efficiency power conversion solutions for lower-current applications.
Low-cost precision supervisors with industry-standard functionality and pin outs include products such as the MCP131 series of CMOS voltage supervisors. These devices are well suited for portable and consumer electrics applications due to their extremely low 1 µA operating current and small surface-mount packaging.
The newest addition to the Low Dropout (LDO) product offering is the MCP1711, a very accurate CMOS LDO voltage regulator that can deliver up to 150 mA of current while consuming only 0.6 µA of quiescent current (typical). Due to excellent internal phase compensation, the LDO output is stable without the need for capacitors.
MOSFET family using high-speed, low figure of merit (FOM) process technology that offers improved power conversion efficiency in switched mode power supplies.
Microchip's Power MOSFETs combine with the Digitally-Enhanced Power Analog devices to drive high-efficiency,and highly-flexible, power conversion solutions. These are low Figure-of-Merit devices, focused on minimizing both on-state resistance (Rds(on)) and gate charge (Qg). They are focused on maximizing power conversion performance, making them ideal for switched-mode power supply applications.
Microchip's novel Hybrid PWM Controller family, built on the Digitally-Enhanced Power Analog technology, combines a high-speed analog controller with a fully-functional MCU. This unique combination offers the speed and response of a traditional analog controller, with the flexibility of a digital interface, to control a variety of power supply topologies.
Fast, efficient analog-based PWM controllers. Most offer integrated MOSFET Drivers, enabling them to directly drive external MOSFETs. These products work alone, in in combination with Microchip PIC® MCUs for sequencing and control..
Microchip's HV Inductorless Switching Regulators are designed to provide offline power for low power applications, with minimal component count, including the ability to eliminate the requirement for an inductor or transformer. These regulators operate with an efficiency higher than a pure Linear Regulator, and with fewer components than a traditional switching regulator.
Microchip offers a wide range of Analog Switching Regulators in both Buck (step-down) and Boost (step-up) topologies, featuring PWM and PFM operating modes, Power Good Outputs, Enable Inputs, True Load Disconnect and Input/Output Bypass. These innovative products offer power system designers the options necessary for designing cost effective, efficient, space saving power conversion solutions.
Microchip's HV Linear Regulator Family provides regulation from as low as 13.2V input to as high as 450V. Versions with varying degrees of adjustability are provided, including versions targeted specifically for power supply startup. Package options include a variety of options, including the TO-92, SOT-89, D-Pak, etc. Current handling varies by product from a low of 10mA to as much as 150mA.
Low-Cost Precision Supervisors and Detectors with Industry-Standard Functionality and Pin-Outs. Microchip Supervisor and Detector Products are well suited for portable and consumer electrics applications due to the extremely low operating current, small surface-mount packaging and flexible functionality.
Choose from a wide selection of Real-Time Clocks for your application, from basic low-cost devices to a variety of highly integrated mid-range devices that offer a usable amount of non-volatile memory as well as a combination of features that are very effective when operating within a single, battery-backed clock device. Both I2C and SPI RTCCs are available to support various applications at a lower price than competitive devices that offer fewer features and lower performance.
Devices for safety and security applications include ICs for ionization and photoelectric smoke detectors as well as for CO and toxic gas detectors. They also include piezoelectric horn drivers for low voltage operation.
If you are designing smoke or carbon monoxide detectors, Microchip offers low-power solutions that meet your design requirements. Our ionization and photoelectric smoke detector devices provide all the essential features and require few external components for developing ionization- or photoelectric-type smoke detectors. Our CO detector ICs incorporate power management, an LED driver, a piezoelectric horn driver and other functions to develop a CO or toxic gas detector.
The RE46CXXX series of piezoelectric horn drivers come in a variety of voltages and range from simple to more highly integrated devices to meet the requirements of your safety and security applications.
Microchip offers a comprehensive product family of thermal management solutions including ambient temperature, remote temperature and fan control.
Temperature Sensors are useful in thermometer circuits, temperature compensation applications as well as a wide array of general purpose replacements for older thermistor technology.
Microchip's brushless DC fan controllers provide temperature proportional fan speed control at low power operation.
Microchip's closed loop fan controllers are adjustable for reaching target fan speed, which is good for aging fans or blocked air paths. Many come with temperature sensors.
The MCP9600 is fully integrated thermocouple Electromotive Force (EMF) to degree Celsius converter, with integrated Cold-Junction compensation. The MCP9600 supports 8 thermocouple types and provides user-programmable registers, adding design flexibility for various temperature sensing applications
Create a high-impact user interface at a lower total system cost with easy-to-use turnkey and plug-and-play capacitive or metal-over capacitive touch sensing solutions. A firmware solution that leverages our vast portfolio of PIC® microcontrollers is also available to make it easy to integrate touch technologies into your application.
State-of-the-art Projected Capacitive Touch (PCAP) technology is at the core of our solutions for touch screens and touchpads. Offering you a compelling platform for all your embedded multi-touch requirements, we specialize in solutions that provide the lowest power as well as on-board detection of surface gestures.
Microchip's patented GestIC® technology unleashes the third dimension for gesture recognition. Adding gesture control and X-Y-Z tracking to your embedded products will enhance and simplify the user experience. Our MGC3XXX low-power, single-chip solutions have no host computing requirements, making it easy to enable 3D control in your design.
As designers increasingly look to touch sensing as the primary user interface, haptics provide feedback that enhances the design and usability. To add mechanical feedback to your design, we offer turnkey products incorporating haptics technology from Immersion, including their Haptic Effects Libraries.
Microchip's family of high-voltage analog switches/multiplexers, pulsers, high-speed MOSFET drivers and discrete high voltage MOSFETs offer the best price/performance ratio available today for ultrasound applications. The feature rich devices offer high-channel density in small packages. Integrated features such as bleed resistors in the ICs further reduce PCB density and overall cost by eliminating an external component
Microchip's pulsed current waveform generator and push-pull source drivers are designed for medical ultrasound imaging and HIFU beamforming applications.
The TCXXXX portfolio consists of combinations of high-voltage N-channel and P-channel MOSFETs offered in a single package, which produces a device with the power handling capabilities of bipolar transistors and with the high input impedance and positive temperature coefficient inherent in MOS devices. Characteristic of all MOS structures, these devices are free from thermal runaway and thermally induced secondary breakdown. Devices are available in 150V to 500V versions.
Microchip's family of high-voltage analog switches/multiplexers, pulsers, high-speed MOSFET drivers and discrete high voltage MOSFETs offer the best price/performance ratio available today for ultrasound applications. The feature rich devices offer high-channel density in small packages. Integrated features such as bleed resistors in the ICs further reduce PCB density and overall cost by eliminating an external component.
This device is a four-channel, low phase noise, continuous wave transmit IC. A high speed D flip-flop is provided to allow the DIN frequency to be aligned to a high frequency clock. The output N-channel is turned on when a logic high is clocked into the D flip-flop. Data are clocked in during the low to high transition.
Microchip's T/R Switch IC's are high voltage, current limiting protection devices designed to protect a low noise receiver from the high voltage transmit pulses in ultrasound applications,
Microchip's MOSFET drivers are designed to drive high voltage P- and N-Channel MOSFET transistors and DMOS FETs for medical ultrasound and other applications requiring a high output current for a capacitive load.
Microchip offers a broad portfolio of wireless solutions which are cost effective and very easy to implement. Depending on your application requirements, you can choose the product that fits your needs from our various transmitters, receivers, transceivers and agency certified modules for IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee®, Bluetooth®, ISM Band Sub-GHz and IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi®.
We offer a broad portfolio of ultra-low power 802.11 solutions that are suitable for embedded applications. These fully certified surface mount Wi-Fi® modules allow you to quickly and seamlessly add Internet connectivity to your applications.
Microchip delivers a wide range of Bluetooth® certified solutions for your embedded design including both silicon and agency-certified modules. All silicon, modules and software carry the Bluetooth.org QDID to ensure compatibility of your connected solution.
The LoRa® wireless networking standard enables Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) wireless communication with a range of more than 10 miles (suburban), a battery life of greater than 10 years, and the ability to connect millions of wireless sensor nodes to LoRa technology gateways. Microchip offers fully-certified LoRa modems for long-range, low-power wireless connectivity.
The LoRa name and associated logo are registered trademarks of Semtech Corporation or its subsidiaries.
The MiWi™ networking protocol is Microchip's proprietary wireless solution for short-range wireless networking applications. It is optimized for low-power, low-data- rate, and cost-sensitive applications.
Our Sub-GHz transceivers, transmitters and receivers are ideal for a variety of short-range, low-data-rate and low-power wireless applications.
Easily develop ZigBee® based applications and reduce your time to market with our ZigBee PRO stack and SEP suite.
Our infrared products are designed to meet a variety of application needs with distinct advantages that enable the you to easily add infrared wireless connectivity to your product.
We offer high-performance Power Amplifiers (PA), Front End Modules (FEM) and Low Noise Amplifiers (LNA) supporting all Wi-Fi® standards as well as ZigBee®, Bluetooth® and DECT applications.
Wireless audio solutions include our JukeBlox® Wi-Fi® connected audio platform, KleerNet® RF technology and Bluetooth® audio solutions to enhance the consumer's listening experience.
If you are looking to add newer and feature-rich interfaces to your products in an aesthetically pleasing manner, Microchip has a broad portfolio of solutions that include touch sensing and display technologies. Microchip delivers these latest advancements as complete hardware and software solutions to get your design to market faster at a lower total system cost.
Segmented displays are used in a wide variety of applications, ranging from meters to portable medical devices to thermostats to exercise equipment. PIC® microcontrollers with integrated LCD drivers can directly drive segmented displays with letters, numbers, characters and icons. Developed to meet the low power design requirements, these MCUs help extend battery life in end applications. LCD PIC microcontrollers offer easy and scalable LCD solutions.
A wide range of remote communication features are possible when Ethernet connectivity is added to embedded designs. Microchip's Ethernet solutions are designed to support the growing needs of these markets with a full complement of robust, highly integrated Ethernet PIC® MCUs and Ethernet devices.
Devices which support the EtherCAT® standard allow you to implement a high level of integration, flexibility and stability, while reducing system costs into your designs for the evolving industrial market.
Having a "smart" partner who can help you keep up with the latest trends and allow you to react quickly to new developments will be the key to your success in designing for the metering market. Microchip understands the design challenges facing meter designers. Our solutions are used in millions of meters worldwide, helping to increase meter accuracy and reliability while lowering total system cost. We provide products and technical support to assist you with developing engaging energy management solutions for use by end customers over their home area networks. Microchip wants to be a partner in your success rather than just a vendor.
We understand the challenges facing meter designers. Our solutions are used in millions of meters worldwide, helping to increase meter accuracy and reliability while lowering total system cost. Find out how our products and technical support will assist you with developing engaging energy management solutions for use by end customers over their home area networks.
Extending battery life, improving flow measurement or adding wireless connectivity for the smart grid can be challenging for designers of gas, water and heat flow meters. Microchip has a range of solutions for increasing meter accuracy and reliability while lowering total system cost. We can also assist you with integrating RF technologies and networking software for automated meter reading applications.
The challenges of improving measurement accuracy, simplicity of design and lowering cost are serious considerations for designers of today's power monitoring applications. Microchip offers a variety of energy measurement solutions to meet these goals, derived from generations of innovation in the utility metering and switch mode power supply markets.
Create a high-impact user interface at a lower total system cost with easy-to-use turnkey and plug-and-play capacitive or metal-over capacitive touch sensing solutions. A firmware solution that leverages our vast portfolio of PIC® microcontrollers is also available to make it easy to integrate touch technologies into your application.
State-of-the-art Projected Capacitive Touch (PCAP) technology is at the core of our solutions for touch screens and touchpads. Offering you a compelling platform for all your embedded multi-touch requirements, we specialize in solutions that provide the lowest power as well as on-board detection of surface gestures.
Microchip's patented GestIC® technology unleashes the third dimension for gesture recognition. Adding gesture control and X-Y-Z tracking to your embedded products will enhance and simplify the user experience. Our MGC3XXX low-power, single-chip solutions have no host computing requirements, making it easy to enable 3D control in your design.
Versatile, cost-effective and power-efficient USB smart hubs, bridges, switches, transceivers, port power controllers, and now USB-C™/power delivery controllers deliver industry-leading performance with unique technologies to enhance your products and applications.
Our versatile, cost-effective and power-efficient USB hubs, bridges, switches, transceivers and port power controllers deliver industry-leading data throughput in mixed-speed USB environments.
Scalable, integrated USB solutions available in 8-, 16- and 32-bit PIC microcontrollers, ranging from space-saving 14-pin devices to feature-rich 144-pin Hi-Speed and Full Speed USB On-the-Go (OTG) products.
Microchip offers a broad portfolio of wireless solutions which are cost effective and very easy to implement. Depending on your application requirements, you can choose the product that fits your needs from our various transmitters, receivers, transceivers and agency certified modules for IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee®, Bluetooth®, ISM Band Sub-GHz and IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi®.
We offer a broad portfolio of ultra-low power 802.11 solutions that are suitable for embedded applications. These fully certified surface mount Wi-Fi® modules allow you to quickly and seamlessly add Internet connectivity to your applications.
Microchip delivers a wide range of Bluetooth® certified solutions for your embedded design including both silicon and agency-certified modules. All silicon, modules and software carry the Bluetooth.org QDID to ensure compatibility of your connected solution.
The LoRa® wireless networking standard enables Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) wireless communication with a range of more than 10 miles (suburban), a battery life of greater than 10 years, and the ability to connect millions of wireless sensor nodes to LoRa technology gateways. Microchip offers fully certified LoRa modems for long-range, low-power wireless connectivity. The LoRa name and associated logo are registered trademarks of Semtech Corporation or its subsidiaries.
The MiWi™ networking protocol is Microchip's proprietary wireless solution for short-range wireless networking applications. It is optimized for low-power, low-data- rate, and cost-sensitive applications.
Our Sub-GHz transceivers, transmitters and receivers are ideal for a variety of short-range, low-data-rate and low-power wireless applications.
Easily develop ZigBee® based applications and reduce your time to market with our ZigBee PRO stack and SEP suite.
Our infrared products are designed to meet a variety of application needs with distinct advantages that enable you to easily add infrared wireless connectivity to your product..
We offer high-performance Power Amplifiers (PA), Front-End Modules (FEM) and Low-Noise Amplifiers (LNA) supporting all Wi-Fi® standards as well as ZigBee®, Bluetooth® and DECT applications.
The ClockWorks® Configurator tool enables designers to quickly configure devices to meet their unique requirements further enabling end product optimization and quick time to market.
Microchip and Accelerated Designs Inc. have collaborated together to provide Microchip customers with schematic symbols and PCB footprints for Microchip products.
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MicrelSim simulates the performance of Micrel’s Linear and Power Products. The tool includes online electrical and thermal simulation capabilities.
Microchip provides award-winning development tool solutions to fit every embedded design application. Our MPLAB® X programming platform is compatible with all our microcontrollers, including 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit, DSC and periphery products. Support for your embedded designs begin here with free tutorials and webinars, a full range of documentation, free software downloads and evaluations, and 24/7 support center.
Microchip Technology provides a wide variety of demonstration and evaluation boards to get your design up and running as quickly as possible. These boards cover a wide spectrum including MCU based solutions, application specific development tools and a wide array of standalone analog boards.
Microchip's award-winning line of compilers, MPLAB® XC, are easy to use with only three compiler types to chose from: XC8 for 8-bit devices, XC16 for 16-bit devices and XC32 for 32-bit devices. They are compatible with Windows®, Linux® and MAC® OS operating systems and have code optimization levels and licensing models to fit every budget.
Microchip's MPLAB® REAL ICE™ In-Circuit Emulator is a modern emulator that supports hardware and software development for most Flash PIC® microcontrollers (MCUs) and dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), leveraging the easy-to-use and powerful graphical user interface of MPLAB X IDE.
Time is money and engineers who are outfitted with powerful and easy-to-use advanced debugging and development solutions are better able to meet their company’s ever decreasing product design schedules and budgets. Microchip's 8-bit Emulation Extension Paks offer a variety of advanced emulation/debugging capabilities to assist customers with their tough code debugging jobs. Its key features include real-time instruction trace, background debug and up to 32 hardware address/data breakpoints. Microchip continues its history of providing highly integrated 8-bit PIC® MCUs with easy to use development tools that provide powerful emulation and debugging capabilities at a cost effective price.
MPLAB Harmony is a flexible, abstracted, fully integrated firmware development platform for PIC32 microcontrollers. It takes key elements of modular and object oriented design, adds in the flexibility to use a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) or work without one, and provides a framework of software modules that are easy to use, configurable for your specific needs, and that work together in complete harmony.
The MPLAB® Code Configurator is a FREE graphical programming environment that generates seamless, easy to understand C code that is inserted into your project. Using an intuitive interface it enables and configures a rich set of peripherals and functions. It is integrated into MPLAB X IDE to provide a powerful and easy to use development platform.
Microchip® X IDE is a free, integrated development environment incorporating a powerful and highly functional set of features. It allows users to easily develop for Microchip's PIC® microcontrollers and dsPIC® digital signal controllers. It is based on the NetBeans IDE from Oracle and runs on Windows®, Linux® and OS X® operating systems. Its unified graphical user interface (GUI) helps to integrate software and hardware development tools from Microchip and third-party sources to give you high-performance application development and extensive debugging capabilities.
Microchip offers many ready-to-use software solutions, such as MPLAB® Code Configurator and MPLAB Harmony, that support development with PIC® microcontrollers and dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers. The Microchip Libraries for Application (MLA) and standalone Embedded Code Source website provide additional resources to assist with your application development.
The Microchip Libraries for Applications (MLA) enhances inter-operability for applications that need to use more than one library. Once you download the Microchip Libraries for Applications, you can select the projects that you need for your application. In addition to the source code, this software package includes: drivers, demos, documentation, and utilities.
Microchip's third-party tools and providers offer a diverse range of embedded-design development boards and software that compliment the development tools we develop in-house. Over 200 Microchip Third-Party Recognized Providers and Premier Partners provide development tools in almost every embedded application. Premier Third-Party Partners in particular are certified by our engineers to be the best in the industry providing not only a large array of software and hardware tools, but superior support for the products as well.
Microchip produces three levels of production-grade programmers, starting with the mid-range MPLAB® ICD 3, then the higher-end MPLAB REAL ICE™ and finally the fully production ready MPLAB PM 3. Our third party tool providers also offer a host of gang programmers and more to round out your production programming needs.
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