New MPLAB Starter Kit for PIC24H MCUs Makes Adding Advanced 16-bit
Control to Embedded Designs Cost Effective and Easy
Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHP), a leading provider of
microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced the MPLAB
Starter Kit for PIC24H MCUs, which includes everything needed to
develop and evaluate Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) and intelligent
sensor processing for embedded designs, at the low cost of $59.98. The
kit is based on the PIC24HJ128GP504
16-bit microcontroller (MCU), which features up to 40 MIPS
performance, 128 Kbytes of Flash, 8 Kbytes of RAM and a full complement
of integrated peripherals. For advanced HMIs, the kit includes an
Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) array display that is supported by
the free Microchip
Graphics Library, low-cost audio and speech playback capability for
user prompts, and user-input capabilities. For intelligent sensor
processing development, the Starter Kit board has a tri-axial analog
accelerometer interfaced to the PIC24H, along with example applications
such as motion-sensitive gaming. The kit is available today at http://www.microchipdirect.com,
under part number DM240021.
Watch a brief video overview of this new Starter Kit at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL6RKDcCcG8.
Embedded control requires more performance to support features such as
sophisticated HMIs, which are being added to a broader range of
products. The MPLAB Starter Kit for PIC24H MCUs provides a simple and
easy-to-use tool for quickly developing HMIs in deeply embedded,
low-cost applications.
Embedded designers are also finding that increasing requirements to add
active intelligence and functionality to sensing and measurement
applications make higher performance microcontrollers with precise
responsiveness very desirable. Additionally, these intelligent sensing
applications demand advanced processing out at the sensor or sensor
cluster. The MPLAB Starter Kit for PIC24H MCUs helps solve these
challenges by including a tri-axial analog accelerometer sensor and the
circuitry to interface to additional external sensors. The kit also
provides sensor interface software.
“An increasing number of embedded-control applications require higher
performance 16-bit processing,” said Derek Carlson, vice president of
Microchip Development Tools.
