Microcontrollers

Microchip Technology Unveils New PIC32 Family

harminka — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:52:46 -0600

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced the PIC32 family of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). The PIC32 family adds more performance and more memory while maintaining pin, peripheral and software compatibility with Microchip’s 16-bit MCU/DSC families.

Microchip Adds 12-bit ADC to High-Performance USB, LCD & GP 8-bit PIC MCUs

harminka — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:04:47 -0500

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced 12 new high-performance, 8-bit Flash microcontrollers (MCUs), including Microchip’s first USB and LCD MCU families to include an on-chip, high-speed 12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) peripheral.

Microchip Announces New PIC18F4XK20/2XK20 8-bit MCU Family

harminka — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:50:32 -0500

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced the first eight members of the PIC18F high-performance 8-bit microcontroller family to take advantage of Microchip’s latest process technology.

Microchip Announces mTouch Solution for Touch Sensing Apps

harminka — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:42:46 -0500

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced the mTouch™ solution to provide engineers with a free and easy method for adding a touch sensing user interface to applications utilizing PIC® microcontrollers.

Epson Releases New 16-Bit RISC, Starts Production of Flash Microcontroller with LCD Driver

harminka — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:29:37 -0500

MCHP to Present at Pacific Crest

harminka — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:13:06 -0500

Microchip Technology Incorporated, a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, will present at the Pacific Crest Securities 9th Annual Technology Leadership Forum on Monday, August 6, 2007 at 11:30 a.m. (Pacific Time).

Luminary Micro and Digi-Key Sign Global Distribution Agreement

Alla — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:10:02 -0500

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minnesota and AUSTIN, Texas, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- - Digi-Key Now Stocking Luminary Micro Stellaris(R) Microcontroller Products Luminary Micro (http://www.luminarymicro.com), creators of the award-winning Stellaris family of Cortex(TM)-M3-based microcontrollers (MCUs), and Digi-Key Corporation, a proven leader in electronic component distribution, announced today that the Stellaris family of MCUs and kits will be made available globally through Digi-Key.

Microchip Technology Announces Low-Power, High-Accuracy Operational Amplifiers

Nymphadora — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:11:02 -0500

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced it has expanded its linear product portfolio into the low power, high-precision arena with the MCP6031, MCP6032, MCP6033 and MCP6034 (MCP603X) operational amplifiers (op amps).

Hua Hong NEC Establishes NVM Technical Cooperation Relationship with Cypress

Nymphadora — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:46:50 -0500

Shanghai Hua Hong NEC Electronics Co. Ltd. and Cypress Semiconductor Corp. have signed an agreement whereby Cypress will license its 0.13um SONOS embedded nonvolatile memory (NVM) technology to Hua Hong NEC .

TI Makes ZigBee Available for Mass Market with Free Software Stack

Nymphadora — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:20:15 -0500

Texas Instruments Incorporated today announced the release of their industry leading ZigBee stack, Z-Stack, for free download at www.ti.com/zigbee. Z-Stack has been awarded the ZigBee Alliance golden unit status by the ZigBee test house TÃƒÅ“V Rheinland and is used by thousands of ZigBee developers worldwide.

Microchip Technology Introduces World's First 16-bit Microcontrollers

Nymphadora — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:03:50 -0500

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced eight new members of the cost-effective PIC24F 16-bit microcontroller family, which extend the line into smaller and lower cost 28- and 44-pin packages with 16 to 64 Kbytes of Flash program memory and up to 8 Kbytes of RAM

Microchip Expands High-Performance and Cost-Effective 8-bit Microcontroller Line

Nymphadora — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:42:19 -0500