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News Release from: Microchip Technology | Subject: PIC18F97J60 family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 September 2006
Tiny 8bit MCUs take Ethernet onboard
The PIC18F97J60 MCU family is optimised for embedded applications, and has an on-chip Ethernet medium access controller and physical layer device.
Microchip announces a family of the world's smallest 8bit microcontrollers with an integrated IEEE802.3-compliant Ethernet communications peripheral The PIC18F97J60 family is optimised for embedded applications, and has an on-chip medium access controller (MAC) and physical layer device (PHY)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Ethernet is the leading networking technology for local area networks (LANs), and it can be used to connect embedded devices through a LAN to the Internet.
Ethernet's infrastructure, performance, interoperability, scalability and ease of development have made it a standard choice for such embedded communications.
Any embedded application that requires Ethernet connectivity can take advantage of the new nine-member PIC18F97J60 microcontroller family.
Such applications can include industrial automation (eg industrial control, power-supply monitoring, network/server monitoring and environmental monitoring); building automation (eg fire and safety, access control, security panels, lighting control and VoIP intercoms); commercial control (eg kitchen appliances, drink dispensers, hotel minibars and POS terminals) and even home control (eg security and networked appliances).
The PIC18F97J60 PICDEM.net 2 development board has been created specifically to assist development with these new integrated devices.
In addition, the latest version of Microchip's free PIC18 TCP/IP Ethernet Stack can be downloaded from the company's website.
The new family is also supported by Microchip's world-class suite of development tools, including the MPLAB VDI visual device initialiser, Application Maestro software, MPLAB C18 C compiler and the MPLAB ICD 2 in-circuit debugger.
The 100-pin PIC18F97J60/96J65/96J60, the 80-pin PIC18F87J60/86J65/86J60 and the 64-pin PIC18F67J90/66J65/66J60 are all offered in RoHS-compliant TQFP packages.
The new product families are available now for general sampling and volume production.
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