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Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Microchip Technology | Subject: PIC24HJ12GP and dsPIC33FJ12GP
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 June 2007
16bit controllers save space with fewer
pins
Low-pin-count 16bit MCUs and digital signal controllers feature peripheral pin select capability, which allows designers to remap digital I/O.
Microchip has come up with two new high-performance, low-pin-count (18- and 28-pin) 16bit product families - the PIC24HJ12GP family of microcontrollers and the dsPIC33FJ12GP family of digital signal controllers (DSCs) Both families feature peripheral pin select capability, which allows designers to remap digital I/O - allowing designers to use smaller pin count devices, minimise board space and optimise board layout to reduce noise
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Other features of both families include: 40MIPS performance in a 6 x 6mm package; 12Kbyte of Flash and 1Kbyte of RAM; a user selectable 10 or 12bit 10-channel ADC; one UART, one SPI and one I2C port With their small size, low price and high-performance, the new dsPIC33FJ12GP DSCs are ideally suited to smart sensor applications - locating the processor with the actual sensor, thereby reducing noise and simplifying system design.
The dsPIC33FJ12GP's onboard 1.1Msample/s A/D convertor can provide signal oversampling, and the processor can implement digital filtering and spectral analysis adjacent to the actual sensor.
Both new families are supported by the full range of Microchip tools, including the free MPLAB integrated development environment with its Visual Device Initialiser component, which graphically assists designers in mapping pins and initialising code for the on-chip peripheral pin select pin-mapping function.
The MPLAB C30 C compiler provides industry-leading code density, along with maths and peripheral libraries.
For emulation and debugging, Microchip offers the full-featured MPLAB REAL ICE tool and the low-cost MPLAB ICD 2 tool.
The new 16bit 28-pin starter board can be used for development with any of Microchip's 28-pin 16bit microcontroller and DSCs.
In addition, for the dsPIC families, the low-cost digital filter design tool and free dsPICworks software allows designers to readily specify, simulate and create digital filters.
The four new devices are all available now for general sampling and volume production.
The PIC24HJ12GP201 and dsPIC33FJ12GP201 are available in 18-pin SOIC and SDIP packages, and the PIC24HJ12GP202 and dsPIC33FJ12GP202 are available in 28-pin SOIC, QFN and SDIP packages.
The new families add to Microchip's 92 different 16bit microcontrollers and DSCs offering seamless migration and scalability with pin, peripheral, software and tool compatibility.
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