11. May 2010 by admin.

From http://www.futureelectronics.com/en/promotions/EventsAndSeminars/Pages/Microchip_XLP_Lunch_and_Learn.aspx 

Qualify for a FREE Explorer 16 Demo Board 

Future Electronics is committed to support Green Initiatives by introducing the world’s lowest power microcontroller. This on site, free Lunch & Learn conducted by a Future Electronics Advanced Engineer will feature 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 tobroadbase 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

• Identify key parameters and how they affect power sensitive applications

• Design using best practices for low-power applications

• Evaluate and use low-power features available on PIC® MCUs 

• Select the correct PIC MCU from the nanoWatt focused families

Register Today (http://www1.futureelectronics.com/event_seminars/microchip/xlp-lunch-and-learn/order.asp)

* offered to qualified customers only

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11. April 2010 by admin.

Found on Twitter:

Follow this link to see if you qualify for free samples from Future. http://bit.ly/c5Ijgn 

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3. April 2010 by admin.

From http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2680&dDocName=en544475

The Microchip Graphics Display Designer (GDD) is an MPLAB IDE plug-in and a visual design tool that provides customers with a quick and easy way of creating graphical user interface (GUI) screens for embedded applications on Microchip MCUs. The GDD is a design tool created for use with the Microchip Graphics Library.

For customers who are familiar with MPLAB IE, PIC MCUs, Microchip Graphics Library and MPLAB C Compilers, the GDD simplifies coding for the GUI screens. Customers can draw, move, resize, and delete screen objects, create multiple static screens, assign an LCD controller, select graphics-related configurations, and generate output source files. These source files can be compiled with the Microchip Graphics Library using the Microchip C compilers for PIC24, dsPIC and PIC32 MCUs.

GDD eliminates the need to manually calculate the X/Y coordinates for on-screen object placements. Nearly all the graphical objects (widgets) from the Microchip Graphics Library are supported in GDD.

GDD provides “what you see is what you get” results by using the same rendering code from the Microchip Graphics Library to draw objects on the PC screen. This guarantees that what you see on the PC screen is what you get on the target embedded screen.

Graphical resources can be imported into GDD for application development, including custom fonts and bitmap images. Various Microchip Graphics Library configuration settings can be set in GDD, including display resolution, color depth, LCD driver, etc. Code generation feature generates ANSI C code for PIC24, dsPIC and PIC32 MCUs. The code generated by this plug-in can be compiled with source files from the Microchip Graphics Library developed for Microchip’s PIC24, dsPIC and PIC32 MCUs.

Advanced users still have the option to call APIs from the Microchip Graphics Library directly without using GDD. This provides a finer control over the flow and behavior of the application.

Released version: 2.0.0.9c – Supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (dated 09/17/09)

The GDD v2.0.0.9c works with Graphics Library v1.75b only, and not with the newer Graphics Library v2.00 or later.

To download Graphics Library v1.75b, click here to download.

Posted in Software, Graphics, Free Stuff | 1 Comment »

23. March 2010 by admin.

 Register for your FREE exhibit pass!
Promo Code: BEM02

Free Sponsored Sessions
Take advantage of the variety of FREE SPONSORED SESSIONS presented by industry heavyweights. Open to ALL attendees, these sessions grant you in-depth, hands-on solutions to specific design challenges.

Exhibit Floor Hours:
April 27 11:30am 7:00pm
April 28 11:30am 5:30pm
April 29 10:30am 3:00pm

Posted in Tradeshows, Training & Education, Free Stuff | 1 Comment »

18. February 2010 by admin.

From Microchip’s Twitter page:

Free passes to the World Meter Design Congress 2010 exhibition floor. Use Promo code MIC001 at http://bit.ly/cviYHx

Posted in Tradeshows, Training & Education, Free Stuff | No Comments »

9. February 2010 by admin.

From: http://www.mikroe.com/en/books/digital-filter-design/

The purpose of this book is to provide you with different theorethical and practical approaches to digital filter design. The book covers design of both finite and infinite impulse response filters. In addition, it applies the most popular and most commonly used design methodes giving the best solutions. Intuitive explanations and numerous examples contained in this book will help you to devolope your understanding of these methods and test your knowledge on concrete issues.

Author: Zoran Milivojević

Posted in Digital Filter Design, MikroElektronika, Free Stuff, Books | 1 Comment »

29. January 2010 by admin.

From: http://www.advin.com/eprom-programmer/programmer-knife.htm

Our goal is to make products that have the same quality standards as the genuine Swiss Army Knife.Therefore, when you order an Advin programmer, you’ll receive a FREE, genuine and original, Victorinox pocket Swiss Army Knife. For you to keep. 

And to remind us that our goal has not been reached, if our products do not measure up to the same qualities as the Swiss Army Knife. Our programmers support the latest and biggest devices from leading chip manufacturers. To find out more, please check out the rest of our web site and contact us at:1-888-GO-ADVIN, (1-888-462-3846) or 1-408-243-7000. 
FAX 541-9006  Sunnyvale, CAYou’ll receive the Swiss Army Knife after you fill out a User Feedback and either mail or fax it to us. Other than this, there are no strings attached.

Posted in Advin, Free Stuff | 1 Comment »

11. January 2010 by admin.

From: http://www.qwikandlow.com/

As embedded microcontrollers reach into all corners of modern life, many applications can benefit from coin-cell battery power. Some benefits are reduced product size and cost, enhanced design simplicity, portability, and electrical isolation. Microchip Technology, the number one supplier of 8-bit microcontrollers in the world, is using their nanoWatt Technology features to achieve these benefits.This book explores how these features impact the design process. It employs the Qwik&Low board shown on the cover as the learning vehicle for the reader. The board is available as Microchip Technology’s Part No. DM183034. For purchase information, see http://www.qwikandlow.com/purchase/ This book introduces the reader to code writing for a microcontroller via a series of template files and using Microchip’s free version of their C compiler for their PIC18 family of microcontrollers. Free supporting tools are available at the author’s website, http://www.qwikandlow.com, including QwikBug, a debugging user interface for downloading code to the Qwik&Low board, running that code, and debugging it using a serial PC connection (via either a serial cable or a USB-to-serial adapter).About the author: John Peatman, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is the author of six earlier textbooks (two from Prentice Hall and four from McGraw-Hill).

Posted in Debugger, Battery Power, Qwik&Low, Complier, 8-bit, Free Stuff, PIC, Books | 1 Comment »

19. October 2009 by admin.

Looks like Microchip brought back free samples in the US, UK, Germany & Italy. No more $7.50 shipping and handling fee.  We like that!

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8. October 2009 by admin.

From http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/24-hr_microchip_technology_giveaway.html:

The sponsors of this year’s Halloween contest have sent us a bundle of, er, bundles to give away in the weeks leading up to the 31st, and we’re gonna start chucking ‘em up in the air pretty fast now. Beginning at noon PST today, and closing at noon PST tomorrow, we will be accepting comments, below, describing the Halloween-y use (or uses) to which you would put the prize bundle consisting of one Microchip Technology PIC10F Cap Touch Demo Board and one MCP1650 Multiple White LED Demo Board. The winner will be announced tomorrow afternoon at the bottom of the comment thread.

Posted in Make Magazine, LED, Touch Sensing, Free Stuff, Microchip, Sweepstakes, Development Tool | 1 Comment »