20. December 2009 by admin.

From: http://www.em.avnet.com/evs/home/0,1707,RID%253D%2526CID%253D50625%2526CAT%253DOTR%2526CCD%253DUSA%2526SID%253D32214%2526DID%253DDF2%2526LID%253D32233%2526PRT%253D0%2526PVW%253D%2526PNT%253D%2526BID%253DDF2%2526CTP%253DEVS,00.html 

mTouch is an alternative to traditional mechanical pushbuttons in your portable designs. New products benefit from being completely sealed, having no mechanical components that wear with time and having a modern looking design.
This OnRamp technical training will introduce Microchip’s mTouch™ Capacitive Touch Sensing technology and begin to explore some advanced design techniques and requirements. 
Agenda

• What is mTouch™ Capacitive Touch Sensing
• Overview of benefits and limitations of solution
• How to integrate mTouch™ Capacitive Touch Sensing into your Portable Instrumentation
  • Review Design Requirements / Best Practices
  • Outline of Microchip mTouch solutions
  • Details on the advantages of the Microchip solutions
• Board demonstration of Microchip mTouch solution

Posted in Avnet Memec, Touch Sensing, Training & Education | 1 Comment »

16. December 2009 by admin.

from http://pp06.sourceforge.net/bloc.html

Fast Development On - Time

BLOC

C like language

• Fast to Write, fewer mistakes
• Programs are readable, and comprehensible
• Familiar to available programming staff
• Code will be supportable by new or different staff into the future
• Programs can be ported easily from algorithms developed in C,
• Code can be ported to other processors

Designed for PIC architecture

• No stack usage
• No use of intermediate storage during expression evaluation
• No “optimization” : code executes as written
• BLOC was written for real time signal processing at 10kHz using the PIC 16C71 !

Posted in Butterfly Signal Processing, Programming Language | 1 Comment »

11. December 2009 by admin.

From http://pr.woodstockwire.com/?p=560 

Microchip recently introduced their new nanoWatt XLP Technology. Currently, nanoWatt XLP Technology is available in the most recent members of Microchip’s microcontrollers, including PIC16, PIC18 & PIC24F. In our continued effort to “Delight the Customer” Future would like to be first to introduce this technology to you in the form of a free on site lunch and learn.

This free on site Lunch & Learn will be conducted by a Future Electronics Advanced Engineer. The training will consist of Microchip Technology’s cutting edge nanoWatt XLP (Extreme Low Power) Flash microcontroller family. This new family of devices offers the industry’s lowest currents for “Sleep”, where extreme low power applications spend 99% of their time. The XLP family offers all of the advantages of the well recognized PIC18F High Performance MCU and caters to broadbase markets most notably Metering, Medical, Consumer, Safety & Security Human Interface and USB. Forget Low Power….go eXtreme.

Key Take-Aways from this FREE Lunch & Learn

Posted in Future Electronics, Low Power, Training & Education | 1 Comment »

8. December 2009 by admin.

From http://www.xgamestation.com/view_product.php?id=47

If you’re looking for the ultimate PIC development kit then the XGS PIC 16-Bit is exactly what you’re looking for. Much more complete and powerful than the Uzebox and many times more powerful than the Arduino! Only $159.95!

Posted in XGS, 16-bit, Development Tool | 1 Comment »

6. December 2009 by admin.

Follow this link (http://www.newark.com/static/en_US/landing/winakit/index.htm) and complete the form to be entered to win an F1 Evaluation Kit from Newark. Drawing ends 12/31/09

Posted in Newark, Sweepstakes | 1 Comment »

5. December 2009 by admin.

On Ebay at: http://cgi.ebay.com/MCU-BOARD—DEVELOPMENT-KIT-PIC-18F4620-+-PROGRAMMER_W0QQitemZ270488079181QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20091121?IMSfp=TL091121186005r3479 

BASE PIC40/4620

Features
- Support MCU PIC 40 Pins 18F877 , 18F458 and 18F4620
- MCU PIC18F4620 40 Pin , Flash 64KB , RAM 3986 Byte , EEPROM 1024 Byte
- A/D 10 bits 13 Channels
- Frequency Clock 10 MHz (up to 40MHz using Phase Lock Loop)
- 4 Slots for 10 Pin I/O Port
- 1 Slots For 5 Pin I/O Port
- RS232 Slot (4 Pins)
- I/O high current Sink(25mA)/Source(25mA)
- PWM , Watchdog
- PCB size : 6.2 x 8.1 cm
- Low Voltage Programming with WINPIC800 using parallel port
- Included => Download cable (ET-CAB10P V2) , CD-Rom
- User Guide http://rapidshare.com/files/248582114/ET-BASE_PIC40-877-458-4620.pdf.html

Remarks ! ! !

- Reserved pin for programming is RB3(PIC16F877) , RB5(PIC16F458 and PIC16F4620)
- Removed download cable when RB6-7 pin are used
- #9 Jumper (16F : PIC16F877 , 18F : PIC16F458 and PIC16F4620)

Posted in 8-bit, Development Tool | 1 Comment »

4. December 2009 by admin.

Proton ChipDrive Mobile Development System from Crownhill Associates Limited

Put your knowledge of PICmicros™ and Smartcards to good use with the PROTON ChipDrive Mobile. This smart and compact handheld unit and a copy of Proton PICBASIC Development Suite is all you need to develop professional Smartcard applications. The Proton-CDM is a terminal providing a ready built platform for the deployment of mobile Smart Card applications.

This development solution allows the creation of applications utilising:

• Smart Cards
  • SIM cards
  • Memory cards
  • Secure cards
• IR Comms
• Graphical LCD Display
• Keypad data entry
• Serial Memory
• Sound.

The unit is fully programmable and contains one of the latest 18F type PICmicro™ microcontrollers, offering a massive 32K of code space and a huge 1500 bytes of RAM. User interactivity is via a 16 key membrane keypad, and a 128 x 64 graphics LCD that can display both TrueType fonts and Graphics simultaneously ( including moving Graphics. Additional data storage is also catered for by the use of internal 8K bytes I²C serial eeprom, which can be expanded to 256K bytes

The unit is equipped with a standard IS07813 Smartcard socket and an internal mini SIM (GSM style) socket, IR is an option. (requires a TxRx device to be fitted), PCB pads and IR window are fitted as standard.

A 40 page booklet accompanies the PROTON ChipDrive Mobile outlining its internal circuitry, and offers many code examples written in the easily understood yet powerful language of PROTON+ PICBASIC.

In addition this package includes the very popular ChipDrive Development pack for the PC, containing:

• source code examples for the PC in:
  • VB
  • Delphi
  • C
• ChipDrive Micro
• CardServerAPI and PC/SC support

Programming the unit is accomplished by a simple serial interface and bootloader, allowing the PIC program to be transferred to the CDM in seconds via a smart card, or direct ‘device’ programming of the socketed PLCC PICmicro™.

Shown below are some of the PROTON ChipDrive Mobile’s features.

Posted in Smartcards, Crownhill Associates | 1 Comment »

1. December 2009 by admin.

Drop me an email at admin@microchipdeals.com with a link to the promotion details. I’m sure there’s more out there that I haven’t found yet!

Posted in Microchip Deal Site Stuff | 1 Comment »