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Technical Training from Microchip: Embedded Designers Forum

30. September 2009 by admin.

 From http://techtrain.microchip.com/RTCV2/EDF/promotions.aspx

Gain a competitive edge.The Microchip Worldwide Embedded Designer’s Forum is a technical training event developed for hardware and software engineers to demonstrate Microchip’s commitment to developing innovative technologies to help you stay ahead in today’s competitive environment.

  • Discover how your next design can benefit from the
    PIC® microcontroller platform
  • Simplify your development process with one integrated development environment with compatible software libraries, re-usable development hardware, and pin and peripheral compatibility, which enables software reuse across projects.
  • There are 120 events scheduled across North America, Europe, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Asean and India.
  • Learn about the latest technologies to enhance your next design through discussions and demonstrations led by Microchip’s expert staff. 
  • Sessions are packed with practical information and advice on how to achieve the lowest power consumption
    • Add a more stylish user interface
    • Run more complex software
    • Add USB connectivity
    • Save money on development and system BOM cost

 

Sessions:

  • Lower Your System Power with the World’s Lowest Sleep Power MCU
  • Design in C with the New 32 MHz PIC16F1 Family of 8-bit Microcontrollers
  • Expand Your Application with 32-bit Performance
  • Add LCD and Graphics Displays to Your Products
  • Integrate USB Connectivity into Your Embedded Design
  • Improve Your User Interfaces Using Touch Sense Technology

 

Registration includes free C Compilers, software and discounts on selected development tools and starter kits. 

Refreshments and Lunch are included. For a complete list of dates and venues, click here.

Posted in Training & Education, 8-bit, Free Stuff, 16-bit, 32-bit | Print | 1 Comment »

ESC Coupon Codes from Microchip!

22. September 2009 by admin.

Thanks Todd S for sending these in!

Microchip is at booth 201 at ESC Boston. If you couldn’t make the show, they are offering a few discounts and freebies. You can even win 1 of 4 iPods.  There’s training in their booth too.

Win an iPod Touch by visiting http://www.microchip.com/survey/esc

Get a free class from their Regional Training Centers when you use coupon code ESC#100WNA at http://techtrain.microchip.com/rtcv2/

Save 20% off any dev tool when you use ESCB2009 at checkout on http://www.microchipdirect.com/ 

Posted in Training & Education, Survey, Tradeshows, 8-bit, PIC, 32-bit, 16-bit, Free Stuff, Development Tool | Print | 1 Comment »

Cash for Dev Tool Clunkers!

20. September 2009 by admin.

Check out http://www.microchip.com/cfc/

Trade in your old development tool clunker for a new one from Microchip!

 

Announcing the “Cash for Clunkers” development-tool exchange program, offering you a cost-effective way to do your part for the environment and get better mileage with Microchip. After all, Uncle Sam isn’t offering the electronics industry any bailouts; so Microchip thought it would stimulate better designs by giving embedded engineers an attractive incentive to trade up for more sleek and modern development tools.

 

Microchip’s Cash for Clunkers program allows embedded designers who are tired of looking at the faded paint jobs on their old tools to exchange selected models from Microchip’s competitors for savings up to 30%—up to a $120—on select PIC® Microcontroller, memory and analog development tools (see Web site for details). But you’d better act fast—the program ends on October 30, 2009. Of course, Microchip will dispose of all exchanged competitor tools in an appropriate manner.

 

Move up to Microchip and send us your Atmel, TI or Freescale development tool** and receive up 30% off the following Microchip development tools:

·         Starter Kit for PIC18F

·         Starter Kit for PIC24F

·         Starter Kit for PIC24H

·         PIC32 Starter Kit

·         Starter Kit for Memory Products

·         PICkit™ 3 Debug Express

·         PIC18 Development Kit (includes PICkit™ 3)

·         MPLAB® ICD 3 Evaluation Kit (Includes PICDEM™ 2 Plus)

·         MPLAB® ICD 3 and Explorer 16 Kit

 

In addition, you will receive a 20% discount off any of Microchip’s analog development tools.

 

Simply complete the form to register for this promotion. You will receive a confirmation Email with details on how to return your tool back to Microchip and when you will receive your discount coupons. This form needs to be completed for each tool you wish to return as part of this limited-time offer.

Posted in 8-bit, Programmer, Debugger, PIC, 16-bit, Microchip, Limited-time Offer, 32-bit, Development Tool | Print | 1 Comment »

Dev Tool Discounts Announced for MASTERs Attendees

1. June 2009 by admin.

Check out this PDF: http://techtrain.microchip.com/usmasters/DevToolPriceListMASTERs2009.pdf

If you haven’t been to MASTERs, it’s a 3-day conference that Microchip holds every year. They have a bunch of technical classes. I think last year, there was about 100 offered. I like it because you can spent time learning about new technology, but you can meet the designers in person and ask them questions, like “Why haven’tyou thought of this?”  Ha ha.

 Back to the discounts… MASTERs registration isn’t cheap, but the tools you can buy there are.  They usually offer tools up to 50% off. So if you need to stock your lab with new boards or software, it’s worth the trip to Phoenix. Even it’s 150 degrees in July.

Posted in HI-Tech, Demo Software, Prototyping, Debugger, MASTERs Conference, 8-bit, PIC, Microchip, Development Tool, Limited-time Offer, 32-bit, 16-bit, MPLAB | Print | 2 Comments »

Get Free Schematic Symbols and PCB Footprints for Faster System Designs

26. May 2009 by admin.

from the May issue of microSOLUTIONS:

Microchip and Accelerated Designs, Inc. have collaborated on an Ultra Librarian Reader (ULR) tool to provide Microchip’s customers with schematic symbols and Printed Circuit Board (PCB) footprints for Microchip’s entire product portfolio, including Microchip’s 8-, 16- and 32-bit PIC® microcontrollers, dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), Serial EEPROMs and Analog and Interface products. Providing components based on parametric data through the ULR allows PCB designers to reliably create consistent quality CAD entities to an established standard with minimal effort. This free download service will save designers valuable time, when working with Microchip’s products, and accelerate time to market for their designs.

Both PCB footprints and schematic symbols are available for free download in a vendor-neutral format, which can then be exported to the leading EDA CAD/CAE design tools—including the newly released Cadsoft Eagle support—using the ULR. The standard Microchip footprints generated by the ULR are based on the IPC-7351 specification. The free ULR tool, including both footprints and symbols, is available now for download at http://www.microchip.com/CAD. The ULR is a subset of the complete Accelerated Designs Ultra Librarian toolset, and generates components and their attributes in virtually any EDA CAD/CAE format. An enhanced version of the Accelerated Designs Ultra Librarian software is also available for purchase. The enhanced package enables software models to be modified and auto-generated to meet any user-defined requirement.

Posted in Accelerated Designs, Inc., Schematic Symbols, PCB, 8-bit, 32-bit, 16-bit, Microchip | Print | 1 Comment »

GNU IDE for PIC and dsPIC

21. May 2009 by admin.

Piklab is an integrated development environment for applications based on PIC and dsPIC microcontrollers. The GNU PIC Utilities, SDCC, PICC, PIC30 toolchain, ICD2 debugger, PICkit1, PICkit2, PicStart+, GPSim and most direct programmers are supported.

Posted in C Programming, Debugger, SourceForge, GNU General Public License (GPL), 8-bit, PIC, Development Tool, dsPIC, 16-bit, MPLAB | Print | 1 Comment »

ASEE Hands-on Workshop on Using the PIC24 CPU in a Microcontroller Course

19. May 2009 by admin.

from http://www.reesemicro.com/Home/asee-hands-on-pic24-workshop

There will be a hands-on workshop at the ASEE annual conference in June 2009 on using the PIC24 in an introductory microcontroller course. Participants are assumed to already have familiarity with microcontroller basics (the particular vendor/family is unimportant). Given this assumed background, the workshop is a fast-paced introduction to assembly language and C language programming/interfacing with the Microchip PIC24 microcontroller family. Participants will need to have a portable PC that runs some form of Windows (Windows 2000 or later) in order to install the various software tools used in the hands-on exercises. Participants should also have two free USB ports on their PC in order to take full advantage of the hands-on exercises.

Take-home Package

The ticket cost is $70, for which the participants will receive to take home:

  • A PIC24-oriented textbook donated by Delmar/Cengage that covers both assembly language and C language programming/interfacing.
  • A PIC24 breakout board that contains a PIC24HJ64GP502 CPU, 3.3 V voltage regulator, power LED, reset switch and an interface to an FTDI USB-to-serial cable. The breakout board will be populated with pin headers that allow it to easily plug into a standard breadboard for experimentation purposes.

  • An experiment board that the previously mentioned PIC24 breakout board plugs into. The experiment board contains 3 LEDs, two push button switches, a SPI temp sensor, I2C temp sensor, analog temp sensor, SPI potentiometer, I2C EEPROM, a SPI DAC, an analog potentiometer, an 8 MHz crystal, and a 32768 Hz crystal. The experiment board + CPU breakout board will be the platform used during the workshop for assembly language and C programming/interfacing. The picture below shows the CPU module plugged into the experiment board.

  • An TTL-232R-3V3 USB-to-serial cable that is used for CPU module communication to development tools hosted on a PC; this serial link is used for serial communication by C programs and also for downloading new programs into the CPU via a serial bootloader.

  • A PICkit2 programmer donated by Microchip that can be used to download new programs into Microchip microcontrollers. A small PCB (picture to be added) that contains a ZIF socket for easily programming CPUs in DIP packages will also be provided to participants.

Tentative Schedule

A tentative schedule for the workshop is show below:

9:00—9:30       Introduction, Setup
9:30—10:30     PIC24 Introduction, Assembly Language Programming
10:30—11:30   Hardware Introduction
11:30—1:00     Parallel I/O & Working Lunch (graciously provided by the ECE division)
1:00—2:00       Interrupts/Timers
2:00—3:00       Serial I/O
3:00—4:00       Data Conversion    
4:00—4:30       PICkit2 Usage
4:30—5:00       Wrap-up

The schedule is aggressive, and the hands-on exercises are designed to be self-paced. There are more exercises included in the workshop material than we can actually cover, so participants can continue working with the material at home if desired.

We have also reached a tentative agreement with Intronix to provide an Intronix 34 Channel USB logic analyzer to each participant for use during the workshop (but not to take home). This is a great USB logic analyzer that is also very affordable (~$400). 

Participants will install the following tools on their PCs to be used during the training:

  • Microchip MPLAB Integrated Design Environment
  • Microchip PIC24 C Compiler (Student edition)
  • Microchip PIC24 PICkit 2 GUI
  • Bootloader GUI software
  • Intronix USB logic analyzer GUI

Posted in Training & Education, Tradeshows, Logic Analyzer, USB, 16-bit, Development Tool, Books, MPLAB | Print | 1 Comment »

10% off all semiconductor inventory thru 5/31

15. May 2009 by admin.

From http://twitter.com/NewarkDesigner 

Save up to 10% with online orders for all ON SEMICONDUCTOR inventory at Newark through 5/31/09.

Posted in Newark, 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, Limited-time Offer | Print | No Comments »

Save 20% on ANY Microchip Dev Tool thru 6/15/09

14. May 2009 by admin.

Check out http://www.microchip.com.hk/quickneasy/ Use Promo Code GNGCAZ39 at checkout on www.microchipdirect.com

Posted in dsPIC, 16-bit, 8-bit, 32-bit, Limited-time Offer, Development Tool, Microchip, microchipdirect, MPLAB | Print | 2 Comments »

Get Free Technical Traning from Microchip

9. May 2009 by admin.

From http://techtrain.microchip.com/rtcv2/MST2009.aspx

Sign up for MASTERs and get FREE RTC Classes
Have you heard about Microchip’s MASTERs Conference? Registration is going on right now. To help you get the most out of your investment, your registration fee now allows you to take the following Regional Training Center classes free of charge between now and MASTERs.
 
MCU 0101 Getting Started with Baseline PIC® MCU Architecture, Instruction Set and Peripheral Programming
MCU 1101 Getting Started with MidRange Microcontroller Family Architecture and Instruction Set
MCU 1111 Mid Range Microcontroller Family Peripheral Configuration and Usage Using Assembly Language
MCU 1121 Mid Range Microcontroller Family Peripheral Configuration and Usage Using the HI-TECH® C Compiler
MCU 2101 Getting Started with PIC18 Architecture and Instruction Set
MCU 2111 PIC18 Microcontroller Family Peripheral Configuration and Usage Using Assembly Language
MCU 2121 PIC18 Microcontroller Family Peripheral Configuration and Usage Using the C18 C Compiler
MCU 3101 Getting Started with 16 bit Microcontroller Architecture and Instruction Set
MCU 3121 Standard PIC24/dsPIC Peripheral Configuration and Usage Using the C30 C Compiler
MCU 3122 Extended PIC24/dsPIC Peripheral Configuration and Usage Using the C30 C Compiler
MCU 3201 Using DSP Features of the dsPIC
MCU 4101 Getting Started with PIC32
TLS 0101 Getting Started with Microchip Tools: MPLAB ® IDE, MPLAB Simulator and MPLAB ICD2
TLS 0103 Getting Started with Microchip Tools: MPLAB ® IDE, MPLAB Simulator and REAL ICE ™
Please note that class schedules are updated monthly and not all eligible classes will be available in all markets. You can see the most update to date schedules by visiting our website. You can also request a specific class by going to Request a class page and filling out the form.
 
To register for any of these classes, click the clinks above and add the class you want to your shopping cart and during checkout enter the coupon that is sent to you with your MASTERs receipt. The discount will be applied to any of the above listed classes. Take as many as you wish.
 
Register for MASTERs 2009 now.

Posted in 8-bit, Training & Education, Seminars & Confrences, MASTERs Conference, PIC, Free Stuff, 32-bit, dsPIC, 16-bit, Microchip | Print | 1 Comment »

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