Product category: Design and Development Hardware
News Release from: Microchip Technology | Subject: AC164120 and PG164101
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 1 September 2004
Budget development for low-pin-count MCUs
New from Microchip Technology the AC164120 Signal Analysis PICtail daughterboard and the PG164101 Baseline Flash Microcontroller Programmer (BFMP)
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The Signal Analysis PICtail daughterboard and accompanying PC software, when plugged into the PICkit 1 Flash Starter Kit, enables engineers to analyse analogue signals as processed by Microchip's low pin-count PIC 8bit microcontrollers. This new daughterboard, with its graphical user interface (GUI), provides designers with a toolbox for learning and evaluating the capabilities of low-pin-count PIC microcontrollers without expensive test equipment or tools.
The BFMP is a simple In-Circuit Serial Programming (ICSP) programmer intended to be used with any of Microchip's new baseline Flash PIC 8bit microcontrollers.
The BFMP provides the least expensive programming method, and includes standard ICSP support and stand-alone programming for the PIC10F 6-pin family, when paired with the PIC10F2XX Programmer Adapter (AC163020).
Using USB and the included GUI, the BFMP allows users to easily read, write and verify Microchip's Flash-based, baseline PIC microcontrollers.
"With the introduction of these two development tools, Microchip continues to make it easy for designers to try our PIC microcontrollers", said Steve Drehobl, Vice President of Microchip's Security, microcontroller and Technology Division.
"The Signal Analysis PICtail daughterboard and BFMP allow users to get up and running with a very small time and financial investment".
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The Signal Analysis PICtail daughterboard is an addon board to the popular and low-cost PICkit 1 Flash Starter kit that contains the 14-pin PIC16F684 8bit Flash microcontroller and 16Kbyte of serial EEPROM.
When the Signal Analysis board is plugged into the PICkit 1 Flash Starter Kit and used with the accompanying Signal Analysis PC software, the designer can perform real-time measurements and display them on a strip chart.
Engineers can also acquire data, which can then be processed and analysed in an oscilloscope plot, FFT or histogram.
By including an easy-to-use PC software program, this daughterboard can be used both to explore new concepts, and to process and display data in traditional formats that are familiar to design engineers.
The BFMP is compatible with all of Microchip's new baseline PIC 8bit Flash microcontrollers, including the PIC10F200/202/204/206, PIC12F508/509, PIC16F505 and PIC16F54/57/59.
It provides a 6-pin linear ICSP header for standard ICSP support.
The BFMP's powered USB connection eliminates the need for an external power supply.
The Signal Analysis PICtail daughterboard (AC164120) and the BFMP (PG164101) are both available now for $25.00 each.
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