Microchip Bolsters 32-bit USB On-The-Go PIC32 MCU Portfolio
Sunday, April 20, 2008; Posted: 03:15 AM

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MCHP | news | PowerRating | PR Charts -- Microchip Technology, a provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, announced that, with the addition of a new family member with integrated USB 2.0 On-The-Go (OTG) functionality and by bringing the first seven general-purpose members to volume production the PIC32 family now provides customers with 12 options to solve their requirements for more performance, more memory and advanced USB OTG connectivity.

Additionally, Microchip noted, it now offers 37 USB PIC microcontrollers in 8-, 16- and 32-bit varieties, from a 28-pin PIC18 to a 100-pin, 80 MHz PIC32. While the PIC32 family brings more performance and memory to embedded designers, it maintains pin, peripheral and software compatibility with Microchip's 16-bit microcontroller and DSC families. To further ease migration and protect tool investments, Microchip said that it offers a complete portfolio of 8-, 16- and 32-bit devices to be supported by a single Integrated Development Environment the free MPLAB IDE.

The company said the PIC32 microcontrollers with integrated USB OTG provide designers with the flexibility to add all three modes of USB operation to their products. Additionally, all PIC32 USB OTG family members feature a USB OTG PHY, enabling even lower BOM costs and smaller PCB real estate.

"PIC MCUs have long been the 8-bit microcontroller of choice for embedded USB applications," said Patrick Johnson, director of Microchip's High Performance Microcontroller Division. "With the addition of a new low-cost member to our USB OTG PIC32 MCU family and the production release of our initial seven members, Microchip continues to extend its leadership in the general purpose embedded MCU market with the most complete portfolio of over 500 8-, 16-, and 32-bit MCUs and DSCs all supported under a single development environment."

All PIC32 family products are supported by Microchip's development tools. Microchip also provides free source code for USB software stacks and class drivers to enable designers to get a head start on the development of their USB applications. Microchip's free USB Host Stack, Device Stack, and Class Drivers (HID, MSD, CDC, Custom) are available at www.microchip.com/pic32libraries. The free USB OTG Stack is currently in beta evaluation, with full release scheduled for the second quarter of 2008, the company noted.

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