Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced the 12-member PIC18F87J11 general-purpose, high-performance 8-bit microcontroller family, which offers up to 20% greater performance with 12 MIPS (48 MHz), enhanced peripherals and lower sleep power consumption. With its breadth of family members, the PIC18F87J11 also provides a wide range of program memory and peripherals, ranging from most cost effective to feature rich.
Microchip is expanding its 3V PIC18F J-series of 8-bit microcontrollers to address cost-sensitive markets requiring high performance. Additionally, the PIC18F87J11 general-purpose family includes nanoWatt Technology for low power consumption in sleep mode, as low as 100 nA, which is ideal for battery-powered applications. Finally, the PIC18F87J11 is the first 8-bit microcontroller to offer the Parallel Master Port for connection to external memory and displays.
"The new PIC18F87J11 family offers more integration and performance, while continuing to provide a new benchmark in price-performance for high-end 8-bit microcontrollers,"Â said Mitch Obolsky, vice president of Microchip's Advanced Microcontroller Architecture Division. "By undertaking this expansion of our high-performance 8-bit microcontroller portfolio, Microchip continues to demonstrate its commitment to meeting customer needs for increasingly complex and cost-sensitive markets"Â - Microchip.
Posted March 12th, 2007 by Nymphadora
