Microcontrollers
Silicon Components offer the complete range of Microchip’s PIC® Microcontrollers (MCUs) & dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) required in any of the embedded designs of today. Ranging from 8-bit to 32-bit, these Controllers are available in different architectures with various peripheral options.
All of Microchip’s PIC® MCUs and dsPIC® DSCs support migration options that enable you in scaling your designs up or down. Key factors enabling platform selection are:
• Complete portfolio: 6 to 100 pins, 384B to 512KB of program memory, up to 80MHz
• Upward compatible architectures to preserve investment in code development
• Pin compatibility in multiple packages facilitates drop-in replacement
• Range of memory technologies: Self Programming Flash, OTP, ROM
• Easy Migration across 8, 16, and 32-bit families
• ICSP ™ (In Circuit Serial Programming) & Self Programming
8-bit PIC® Microcontrollers
The 8 bit PIC®Microcontroller from Microchip is based on modified Harvard RISC instruction set with a range of peripheral options and features making it one of the most powerful yet user friendly devices in the market. An easy migration path across the 8-bit series of controllers along with a simple instruction set, comprehensive easy-to-use development tools, and a unified development environment for all products allows a seamless migration between product families allowing flexibility & performance.
Features of 8-bit PIC Microcontroller
• Low pin count of 6 pins to 100 pins
• Up to 70 I/O lines
• CPU speed ranging from 4 MHz up to 64 MHz
• Program memory raging from 348 bytes to 128K bytes
• World's lowest active & sleep power
16-bit PIC24 MCUs and dsPIC® DSCs
The 16 bit Microcontrollers (MCUs) & dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) from Microchip feature a powerful 16 bit modified Harvard RISC Architecture & are available in 2 different families, with a common attributes such as pin compatibility, software compatibility, peripheral compatibility & common development tools.
Features of 16 bit Microcontrollers (MCUs) & dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers
• Low pin count of 14 pins up to 100 pins
• 16 to 40 MIPS PIC24 MCU & dsPIC® DSC families
• Flexible memory options up to 256 KB
• Innovative Peripherals for Digital Power Conversion & motor Control Applications.
• Single Cycle execution
32-bit PIC® MCUs
Microchip offers a family of 32-bit microcontrollers "PIC32" with a best in class 32 Bit - performance and accompanied by a vast offering of software. The PIC32 comes with DMIPs/MHz rated MIPS® M4K® core, highly efficient internal bus architecture, and advanced instruction caching. The 5 families of PIC32 MCUs offer a range of general purpose and integrated connectivity peripherals including Ethernet, CAN, and USB host/device/On-The-Go. Integrated flash memory ranges from 32K to 512K and on-board RAM ranges from 8k to 128k.
Features of 32-bit PIC® MCUs
• 80 MHz, 1.56 DMIPS/MHz CPU core
• Single cycle multiply and divide hardware
• Flash pre-fetch module, 256Byte cache
• Fast context switch and interrupt response
• 8 channel DMA controller
• Key peripherals have dedicated DMA channels
• Atomic bit manipulation
