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News Release from: Microchip Technology | Subject: PIC24 family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 11 October 2005
PIC microcontrollers stretch to 16bit
The PIC24 family is the first family of 16bit PIC microcontrollers.
Microchip announces the PIC24 family, its first family of 16bit PIC microcontrollers The family debuts with 22 general-purpose devices and offers up to 40MIPS performance, 16Kbyte of RAM and 256Kbyte of Flash program memory, in packages up to 100 pins
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The PIC24 family maintains compatibility with Microchip's MPLAB integrated development environment (IDE) platform and upward compatibility with all dsPIC digital signal controllers.
There are two series of devices within the PIC24 family.
The PIC24F offers a cost-effective step up in performance, memory and peripherals for many demanding 8bit microcontroller applications.
For even more demanding applications, the PIC24H offers 40MIPS performance, more memory and additional peripherals, such as CAN communication modules.
Overall, the PIC24 delivers increased performance without sacrificing interrupt flexibility and responsiveness, code execution predictability, easy I/O manipulation, C code efficiency and system integrity.
As with all Microchip microcontroller families, the PIC24 is designed to meet a wide range of needs across a broad spectrum of applications.
Specific examples include consumer items such as handheld remote controls; communications applications such as optical network components; instrumentation and measurement applications such as handheld and remote terminals, POS terminals and medical instruments; and industrial applications such as factory automation systems, building monitor-and-control systems and security/access systems.
In addition to being compatible with the MPLAB IDE, the PIC24 family is supported by existing Microchip development tools such as the MPLAB C30 C compiler and the MPLAB PM3 universal device programmer.
Microchip has also created the Explorer 16 development board to support all 16bit PIC24 microcontrollers and 16bit dsPIC digital signal controllers.
The Explorer 16 (DM240001) is expected to be available in November.
Third-party support for the PIC24 family is planned for the end of 2005, to include Hi Tech's C compiler, and a programmer from Data I/O.
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