Date: 02/09/2010

8-bit MCU with USB 2.0 from Microchip

Microchip has released the PIC18F47J53, an 8-bit MCU with full speed USB 2.0 interface. This microcontroller chip is part of Microchip's XLP family of controllers. PIC18F47J53 packs 128 KB Flash program memory and 4 KB RAM. The IC is suitable for applications that can perform remote field upgrades, download usage data and connect to diagnostic equipment. This device integrates the mTouch sensing capability to implement the capacitive touch sensing user interfaces.

Microchip offers a free smart card library, within its free USB stack in the PIC18F47J53 MCU. This MCD has an on-chip 12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter. This device also includes multiple PWMs, timers and SPI channels with DMA. The PIC18F47J53 MCU is suggested for portable consumer devices, medical devices, and other applications requiring low power consumption and USB connectivity.

"The PIC18F47J53 family broadens our portfolio of cost-effective XLP products with integrated USB, for portable applications that need to share data," said Mitch Obolsky, vice president of Microchip's Advanced Microcontroller Architecture Division. "The MCU offers a fully-compatible memory extension to our popular PIC18F46J50 USB family, serving a wide spectrum of applications, such as handheld medical devices and speaker accessories for iPod."

Package:
The PIC18F27J53 MCU comes in 28-pin QFN, SOIC, SPDIP, and SSOP packages.
The PIC18F47J53 MCU comes in 44-pin QFN and TQFP packages

Price: Starts at US$2.31 for 10,000-unit quantities.

Availability: Sampling now

For more information visit: http://www.microchip.com/get/HJB0.