Microchip Technology is now offering a new line of microcontrollers targeted for medical and industrial applications.
By analog integration and low power use, the PIC24FJ128GC010 product line is lower in cost and reduces noise levels. The new product line is an analog system on a chip.
It improves the signal throughput when used with portable medical monitoring devices, such as blood-glucose meters and blood-pressure monitors. It also improves the signal in industrial applications, such as portable monitoring devices. Examples are voltage and current monitors, gas sensors and high-speed sensor arrays.
"Microchip has made analog design easier with the launch of this latest intelligent-analog microcontroller family," Joe Thomsen, director of Microchip's MCU16 Division, said in a statement. "We started with the customer's end product in mind debugging the noise and communication so designers get consistent analog performance across applications. We also created a comprehensive starter kit on which our customers can build their software, hardware and sensors—drastically improving their development time by eliminating the need to design a board."
The PIC24FJ128GC010 MCU family is available for sampling and volume production, starting at $2.59 each in volume.
Overall, Chandler, Arizona-based Microchip Technology provides microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions.
Earlier in the month, Microchip Technology announced a new Verizon Wireless certified Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Development Platform for CDMA. The platform is pre-certified on the Verizon Wireless network. It has two-way communication capability.
In addition, Microchip Technology recently announced the expansion of its Arduino compatible chipKIT platform ecosystem. It includes a Raspberry Pi tool. Also, the chipKIT Multi-Platform IDE lets users create Arduino sketch-based chipKIT applications in the Raspberry Pi operating system.
Edited by
Alisen Downey
