Microchip has released a new family in its high-performance PIC32MZ 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) family with integrated hardware floating-point unit (FPU) that provides high performance in dense single-precision and double-precision math applications And lower latency.
The new 48-member PIC32MZ EF family also provides a 12-bit, 18 MSPS analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for a variety of high-speed, broadband applications. In addition, the PIC32MZ EF supports a wide range of DSP instruction sets. This combination of DSP instructions, double-precision FPU, and high-speed ADC increases code density, reduces latency, and speeds up processing-intensive applications.
The PIC32MZ EF series is supported by Imagination's MIPS M-class core at 200 MHz / 330 DMIPS and 3.28 CoreMarks / MHz, and integrates dual-panel real-time update flash memory (up to 2MB), large RAM (512 KB), and the widest entire PIC32 Choice of connected peripherals in the product portfolio, including 10/100 Ethernet MAC, Hi-Speed ??USB MAC / PHY and dual CAN ports. Many embedded applications are adding better graphics displays. The PIC32MZ EF with LCCG configuration can support up to WQVGA displays without increasing the cost of an external graphics controller. The optional full-featured hardware encryption engine also comes with a random number generator for high-throughput data encryption / decryption and authentication using AES, 3DES, SHA, MD5, and HMAC.
Accelerating product cycles and rapidly evolving customer demands are increasing the time-to-market pressure for designers. Microchip's award-winning MPLAB Harmony integrated software framework provides a modular, pre-tested, and easy-to-use GUI-based development ecosystem that helps simplify integration, reduces testing, and accelerates the ability to adapt to rapidly changing market demands. Enables designers to focus on product development.
The new PIC32MZ EF family is also supported by Microchip's free MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment (IDE) running Harmony and the MPLAB XC32 compiler. MPLAB ICD 3 in-circuit debugger (DV164035) and MPLAB REAL ICE in-circuit emulator system (DV244005) are also available.
Four new PIC32MZ EF development tools are also provided. Complete turnkey PIC32MZ embedded connectivity with FPU EF starter kit (DM320007); PIC32MZ embedded connectivity (DM320007-C) with floating point unit and cryptographic starter kit; PIC32MZ2048EF PIM Explorer 16 plug-in module (MA320019) and PIC32MZ EF Audio 144-pin PIM (for BluetoothR Audio Development Kit) (MA32001).
The PIC32MZ EF series is also included in the new Arduino-compatible Digilent chipKIT Wi-FIRE development board. The board provides easy access to professional applications and libraries for new PIC32 users. It supports rapid prototyping and simplifies the migration to professional integrated development environments such as Microchip's MPLAB X IDE.
All 48 members of the PIC32MZ EF family are now available for sampling and volume production has begun. The encryption engine has been integrated into 16 PIC32MZ EF MCUs, a total of 12 MCUs with 512 KB flash memory, 24 MCUs with 1 MB flash memory and 12 MCUs with 2 MB flash memory.
Members of the Superset family and their package options are 64-pin QFN (9 �� 9 mm) and TQFP (10mm x 10 mm) for the PIC32MZ2048EFH064. PIC32MZ2048EFH100's 100-pin TQFP (12mm x 12mm and 14mm x 14mm); PIC32MZ2048EFH124's 124-pin VTLA (9mm x 9mm); PIC32MZ2048EFH144's 144-pin TQFP (16mm x 16mm) and LQFP (20mm x 20mm).
Superset MCUs with integrated encryption engines are PIC32MZ2048EFM064, PIC32MZ2048EFM100, PIC32MZ2048EFM124 and PIC32MZ2048EFM144.
