World’s First 1,000-Processor Chip
https://www.electronics-lab.com/worlds-first-1000-processor-chip/
by Andy Fell: A microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors has been designed by a team at the University of California, Davis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The energy-efficient “KiloCore” chip has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transistors. The KiloCore was presented at the 2016 […]
Microchip’s first ARM processor with cryptographic engine
https://www.electronics-lab.com/microchips-first-arm-processor-with-cryptographic-engine/
Clemens Valens @ elektormagazine.com discuss about the new CEC1302 microcontroller from Microchip. This is the first Microchip microcontroller with an ARM core. He writes: Based on a Cortex-M4 core its main feature is its integrated cryptographic engine supporting public key encryption, symmetric key encryption, secure hashing and random number generating. Besides its ARM core the […]
Microchip cloud-based development platform launches
https://www.electronics-lab.com/microchip-cloud-based-development-platform/
Microchip Technology announced MPLAB Xpress, a new cloud based development environment to provide an easy way to get started with PIC microcontrollers. Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced its MPLAB® Xpress Cloud-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE). This online development platform is the easiest way […]
Microchip to Buy Atmel for Nearly $3.6 Billion
https://www.electronics-lab.com/microchip-to-buy-atmel-for-nearly-3-6-billion/
Microchip Technology to Buy Atmel for Nearly $3.6 Billion @ The New York Times. Microchip Technology agreed to acquire a fellow chipmaker, the Atmel Corporation, for about $3.6 billion, part of a wave of mergers and acquisitions within the semiconductor industry. Chip makers have been combining to cut costs and build scale for their […]
How to migrate from Microchip to Freescale and Why
https://www.electronics-lab.com/how-to-migrate-from-microchip-to-freescale-and-why/
Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio has pointed us to this latest article on why to choose Freescale mcu versus Microchip ones: The task of choosing the best micro for an application is not made easier by the multitude of suppliers you have at hand today, this being the drawback of having so many options. The main […]
Designing and Building a binary clock
https://www.electronics-lab.com/designing-and-building-a-binary-clock/
Parker Dillmann @ macrofab.com has designed a wrist LED binary clock based on PIC16F527 Microchip mcu. The Macro Watch stemmed from those constraints. I picked the PIC16F527 microcontroller by Microchip to be the core of the watch because it was the cheapest MCU I could find that had enough I/O and I knew at least […]
The MCP9600 Thermocouple interface
https://www.electronics-lab.com/the-mcp9600-thermocouple-interface/
by Martin Cooke @ elektormagazine.com: The MCP9600 from Microchip is a single chip solution to convert thermocouple output EMF to degrees Celsius. The chip includes integrated cold-junction compensation and corrects thermocouple non-linearity for the eight most popular types of thermocouple. User-programmable registers in the MCP9600 allow the chip to be configured for various applications including a […]
TC7106 – 3 1/2 Digit ADC for LCD Display
https://www.electronics-lab.com/tc7106-3-12-digit-adc-for-lcd-display/
The TC7106 3½ digit LCD direct-display drive analog-to-digital converter has a reference with a 80ppm/°C max temperature coefficient. TC7106 based systems may be upgraded without changing external passive component values to the TC7106A for a more precise system. High impedance differential inputs offer 1pA leakage current and a 1012 Ohm input impedance. The differential reference […]
18 PIN PIC Development Board
https://www.electronics-lab.com/18-pin-pic-development-board/
The PIC 18 PIN (DIP) Development / Evaluations Board demonstrates the capabilities of Microchip’s 8-bit microcontrollers, specifically, 18 Pin PIC16F1847. It can be used as a standalone demonstration board with a programmed part. With this board you can develop and prototype with all Microchip’s 18 PIN PIC microcontrollers. The board has a Reset switch and […]
Delay using 8051 Timer
https://www.electronics-lab.com/delay-using-8051-timer/
The major component of this circuit is Microchip’s SST89E54RDA-40-C-PIE, which is a pin-for-pin compatible with typical 8051 microcontroller devices. It has a built-in timer used to produce accurate time delay. The light emitting diode (LED) is connected through the 330Ω resistor to indicate the time delay. The blinking LED switches ON for 1ms and switches […]