MCUs upgrade 8bit applications

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Mar 12, 2007

High-performance 8bit microcontroller family offers improved performance, enhanced peripherals and lower standby power consumption.

New from Microchip, the 12-member PIC18F87J11 high-performance 8bit microcontroller family offers greater performance (up to 12MIPS at 48MHz), enhanced peripherals and lower standby power consumption.

The new family includes nanoWatt Technology for low power consumption in sleep mode (as low as 100nA) which is ideal for battery-powered applications.

The new devices are also the first Microchip 8bit microcontrollers to offer the parallel master port for connection to external devices.

Example applications for the new devices include white goods, TCP/IP interfaces, security-system panels and keypads, server power-supply and temperature controllers, and data logging.

The 12 members of the PIC18F87J11 microcontroller family are supported by Microchip's development systems, including the free MPLAB integrated development environment (IDE) with Visual Device Initialiser, the MPLAB C18 C compiler, and the MPLAB ICD 2 in-circuit debugger.

The PICDEM HPC explorer board (part number DM183022) supports these devices using separate plug-in modules.

The plug-in module for the PIC18F87J11 (part number MA180020) is expected to be available in March.

The new products are offered in 64- or 80-pin TQFP package options, and all are available as samples now.

Volume-production is expected in March.