Microchip has announced new PIC18F87J90 8-bit direct LCD-drive microcontrollers with nanoWatt technology, that include realtime clock and calendar (RTCC) and charge time measurement unit (CTMU) peripherals, ...
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Microchip has announced a family of 8 and 32 KB standalone serial SRAM devices designed to increase a system’s available RAM by adding small, inexpensive external devices. The 23A640, 23K640 (23 x 640), ...
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New from Microchip are the MCP9509 and MCP9510 resistor-programmable, logic-output temperature switches. The low power devices’ temperature-switch threshold can be programmed with a single external resistor, ...
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Microchip has enhanced its mid-range 8-bit PIC microcontroller core architecture supporting PIC12 and PIC16 MCUs, with feature and peripheral improvements including more program and data memory; a deeper/ ...
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Designed for sensing and control applications, the ZigBee wireless standard is based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard and was developed by the ZigBee Alliance (www.zigbee.org). The specification addresses ...
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Microchip has announced the expansion of its Ethernet software and support for embedded systems designers, including the addition of secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption to its free TCP/IP stack and ...
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In the real world, the motor selection process can be complex and the decision must balance the ease of control with other system-related variables such as ease of maintenance, system response to failure, ...
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Power supplies, forming an integral part of almost every electronic system, are now a significant market in their own right, and one which is growing at a tremendous rate. For many years, power supply ...
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Microchip has made available 10 new and existing application-specific PICtail Plus daughter boards for the popular Explorer 16 Development Board platform, which supports Microchip’s 16-bit PIC24 microcontrollers ...
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Microchip has announced the new MCP1415 and MCP1416 (MCP141X) single-output MOSFET drivers. The inverting MCP1415 and non-inverting MCP1416 are rated for a peak output current of 1,5 A, over a wide operating ...
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LEDs have emerged in recent years as viable sources of light and are no longer used solely as status-light indicators for electronic equipment. Advances in technology have provided LEDs that are typically ...
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Microchip has 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 ...
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