Date: 29/06/2010

PIC MCU family from Microchip with integrated USB and 96Kb of RAM

Microchip has introduced the four-member PIC24FJ256GB210 microcontroller family, which integrates USB for Embedded Host/Peripheral/On-the-Go and 96 Kbytes of RAM. This RAM enables buffering of sizeable amounts of data and better overall throughput, for applications such as Ethernet connectivity, remote sensing, data logging and audio streaming. It can be used to store generated images or data for dynamic content, such as real-time, remote sensor data graphs. It uses Microchip's free USB software library and TCP/IP stack. These MCUs have small footprints and feature in a broad range of industrial, instrumentation/measurement, medical and consumer applications.

Some of the features of the four-member PIC24FJ256GB210MCU family are:

1. It integrates a USB peripheral and large amounts of RAM into a single microcontroller as small as 64 pins, along with Peripheral Pin Select to provide designers the flexibility to remap digital I/O pins.
2. Other peripherals include 24 channels of mTouch capacitive touch sensing, along with a free touch software library, and the 16-bit Enhanced Parallel Master/Slave Port, which enables wider peripheral selection and improved bandwidth when connecting to off-chip resources.

"Microchip doesn't stop at providing embedded designers with high levels of microcontroller integration and performance-we also help them get to market quickly via industry-leading software support and configuration tools, training and development boards," said Mitch Obolsky, vice president of Microchip's Advanced Microcontroller Architecture Division. "Maximum flexibility is ensured by Microchip's unparalleled migration strategy, which allows designers to move among our large portfolio of 8/16/32-bit PIC microcontrollers through code compatibility and one universal MPLAB® integrated development environment."

Package:
The PIC24FJ128GB206 and PIC24FJ256GB206 come in 64-pin TQFP and QFN packages.
The PIC24FJ128GB210 and PIC24FJ256GB210 come in 100-pin TQFP and 121-pin BGA packages.

Price: starting at $4.10 each in 10,000-unit quantities

Availability: Now

For more information visit: http://www.microchip.com/get/TNT7