Microchip Technology Expands 8-bit Microcontroller Family
Microchip Technology Inc. announced the 12-member PIC18F87J11 general-purpose, high-performance 8-bit microcontroller family, which the company claims offers up to 20% greater performance with 12 MIPS (48 MHz), enhanced peripherals and lower sleep power consumption. With its breadth of family members, the PIC18F87J11 also provides a wide range of program memory and peripherals, ranging from most cost effective to feature rich.
Microchip is expanding its 3V PIC18F J-series of 8-bit microcontrollers to address cost-sensitive markets requiring high performance. Additionally, the PIC18F87J11 general-purpose family includes nanoWatt Technology for low power consumption in sleep mode, as low as 100nA, which is suitable for battery-powered applications. The company claims that the PIC18F87J11 is the first 8-bit microcontroller to offer the Parallel Master Port for connection to external memory and displays.
"The new PIC18F87J11 family offers more integration and performance, while continuing to provide a new benchmark in price-performance for high-end 8-bit microcontrollers," said Mitch Obolsky, Vice President of Microchip’s Advanced Microcontroller Architecture Division. "By undertaking this expansion of our high-performance 8-bit microcontroller portfolio, Microchip continues to demonstrate its commitment to meeting customer needs for increasingly complex and cost-sensitive markets."
To reduce time-to-market, all 12 members of the PIC18F87J11 microcontroller family are supported by Microchip’s standard, high-performance development systems, including: the free MPLAB® Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with Visual Device Initializer, MPLAB C18 C Compiler, MPLAB ICD 2 In-Circuit Debugger, and the $59.99 PICDEM™ HPC Explorer Board (part # DM183022) – via separate $25 plug-in modules. A PICDEM HPC Explorer plug-in module for the PIC18F87J11 is expected to be available in March (part # MA180020).
The 12-member PIC18F87J11 family is offered in 64- or 80-pin TQFP package options, and all are available now for sampling by contacting your local sales office. Volume-production is expected in March, starting at $2.27 each in 10,000 unit quantities.
