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News Release from: Microchip Technology | Subject: 28- and 44-pin 16bit dsPIC DSCs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 March 2008
Digital signal controllers target audio
New dsPIC DSCs feature a range of peripherals including two analogue comparators, a user-selectable 10 or 12bit ADC and a real-time clock calendar.
Six new 28- and 44-pin 16bit dsPIC digital signal controllers from Microchip incorporate dual-channel 100Ksample/s 16bit audio DAC modules for price- or size-conscious embedded system designers who require improved audio performance or wish to add audio playback to existing embedded applications These new devices feature direct memory access (DMA) with 2Kbyte of dual-port RAM included in a total of 16Kbyte of RAM
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new dsPIC DSCs feature a range of peripherals including two analogue comparators, a user-selectable 10 or 12bit ADC and a real-time clock calendar.
Serial peripherals include two UARTs, two SPIs, I2C and CAN2.0B.
Cyclic redundancy checking (CRC) hardware is also included.
A parallel master/slave port (PMP) enables parallel connection to external memory, communication peripherals or displays.
The devices also include the highly flexible peripheral pin select (PPS), allowing digital peripherals to be remapped to various pins to achieve layout efficiency or access pin-multiplexed peripherals.
All devices are offered in Industrial (-40 to +85C) and Extended (-40 to +125C) temperature ranges.
Four of the new dsPIC33 devices also offer a codec interface supporting the I2S and AC97 protocols, while two also offer motor control and power conversion peripherals, including a three-phase PWM, a power factor correction PWM and two quadrature encoder interfaces.
Volume production is expected during the second quarter of 2008.
These dsPIC33 families are supported by the free MPLAB IDE, the MPLAB C30 C compiler, the MPLAB ICD 2 for programming and debugging, and the MPLAB PM3 universal device programmer.
Microchip has also created the Explorer 16 development board (part number DM240001) in support of all its 3.3V 16 and 32bit controllers.
There is also a low cost 28-pin starter development board (part number DM300027) for all 28-pin 16bit devices.
The 28-pin devices are available in SOIC, QFN and SPDIP packages, and the 44-pin devices are offered in TQFP and QFN packages.
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