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Processor increases low-voltage-application performance
By Robert Cravotta -- EDN, 5/12/2005
Doubling the performance of its low-voltage processors, Microchip has announced the PIC18F87J10 flash processors, which can operate at 40 MHz at 3V. The 8-bit microcontroller architecture can operate as low as 2V and integrates as much as 128 kbytes of flash memory; linear memory addressing of as much as 2 Mbytes; a 15-channel, 10-bit ADC; comparators; SPI or I2C synchronous serial ports; LIN (local-interconnect-network)-capable USARTs; and seven-mode nanoWatt technology for power management (Picture). The processors support 100-nsec, single-bit I/O toggling, 25-mA sink and source I/O, and latency interrupts of 300 and 400 nsec for internal and external events, respectively. The PIC18F87J10 processors are code- and tool-compatible with all PIC18F microcontrollers.
The PICDEM HPC Explorer demonstration board (DM183022), along with Microchip’s MPLab integrated development environment, Visual Device initializer, C18 optimizing C compiler, ICD 2 in-circuit debugger, and universal device programmer support development with PIC18F87J10 devices. The microcontroller family has 10 devices, which are available in production volumes.
Microchip,1-480-792-7200, www.microchip.com.
