Microchip PIC32 MCU Family Overview

Overview

32-bit PIC Microcontrollers

Microchip's 32-bit portfolio with the MIPS M4Koffers high performance microcontrollers, and all the tools needed to develop your embedded project. With free software, low cost development tools, and pin/peripheral compatibility from 16-bit product lines, PIC32 MCUs shorten time to market and allow your designs to grow. PIC32 gives your application the processing power, memory and peripherals your design needs!

The PIC32 MCU is a family of 32-bit Microcontrollers designed for best-in-class 32-bit performance and accompanied by a vast offering of software.   Since its introduction in 2007, the PIC32 family has established itself as a performance leader stemming from the highest DMIPs/MHz rated MIPS M4K core, highly efficient internal bus architecture, and advanced instruction caching.  The 5 families of PIC32 MCUs offer a range of general purpose and integrated connectivity peripherals including Ethernet, CAN, and USB host/device/On-The-Go.  Integrated flash memory ranges from 32K to 512K and on-board RAM ranges from 8k to 128k.

The PIC32 family is supported by Microchip's MPLAB development environment and well-known industry tools and software providers.  Microchip customers benefit from the extensive offering of free software libraries, commonly available in source code form, such as graphics, TCP/IP, USB, encryption, file systems, and digital signal processing software.   Most software stacks are compatible across numerous Microchip microcontroller and digital signal processor families.  The MPLAB development environment spans the entire Microchip portfolio of over 600 Microcontrollers thus enabling you to use a single tool chain from the lowest cost  8-bit MCU to the highest performing and largest memory PIC32 MCU.

• Power your RTOS, Touch Screens and Complex Applications
  • MIPS M4K Core
  • 80 MHz, 1.56 DMIPS/MHz
  • 5 Stage Pipeline devices
  • Instruction Trace
  • Up to 512 KB Flash
  • Up to 128 KB SRAM
  • Prefetch Buffer Cache
  • Separate Buses for Instructions and Data
  • Fast interrupts and context switch
• Quick Time to Market, Shorten Your Project Design Cycle
  • Free software with source code
  • Easy to use Starter Kits
  • Application Development Boards
• Connected Peripherals with DMA
  • Full-speed USB Host/Device/OTG
  • 10/100 Ethernet MAC with MII/RMII Interfaces
  • 2x CAN 2.0B Ports
  • Up to 6 UART, 5 I²C, 4 SPI Ports
  • Up to 8 Additional Channels of General Purpose DMA
• Industry-Leading Compatibility
  • Common MPLAB X development tools
  • Pin and peripheral compatible with 16-bit PIC MCUs
  • Common software stacks across MCUs
  • Common tools environment over 800 PIC MCUs
• Fast, Easy Development
  • Free MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment supporting all Microchip MCUs
  • Free MPLAB XC Compiler
  • Free demo code to get you started with communications, graphics, touch sense, file system, audio and signal processing
  • Work in a familiar environment with a broad third party ecosystem of IDEs, RTOS and debuggers
  • Hardware trace for less than $80
  • Development kits starting at $34.95 with free C compiler