Microchip nanoWatt XLP™︎ Technology World’s Lowest Current MCUs

tech1 — Sun, 27 May 2012 00:20:29 GMT

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Extreme low power microcontrollers featuring nanoWatt XLP™ Technology offer the industry’s lowest currents for Sleep.

As more electronic applications require low power or battery power, energy conservation becomes paramount.

Today’s applications must consume little power, and in extreme cases, last for up to 15-20 years, while running from a single battery. To enable applications like these, Microchip has introduced nanoWatt XLP™ Technology. Extreme low power microcontrollers featuring nanoWatt XLP™ Technology offer the industry’s lowest currents for Sleep, where extreme low power applications spend 90%-99% of their time.

Benefits of nanoWatt XLP™ Technology include:

Sleep / Power-down current down to 13 nA
Brown-out Reset down to 45 nA
Watch-dog Timer down to 400 nA
Real-time Clock/Calendar down to 500 nA

Low Power Integration

Many of today’s low power products also need advanced peripherals. Microchip offers low power devices with peripherals like USB, LCD, RTCC and mTouch™ capacitive sensing. This eliminates the need for additional parts in the application, saving cost, current and complexity.

Deep Sleep Mode

The most recently introduced nanowatt XLP™ PIC © MCUs ( PIC18F46J50 , PIC18F46J11 and PIC24F16KA102 families ) all feature Deep Sleep Mode , this offers significantly lower sleep currents than normal sleep mode – although wake up times may be extended , a comparison is shown

below.

PIC18F46J50 Nanowatt XLP™ PIC© MCU – with USB – 28 / 44 Pins

The new NanoWatt XLP™ family – PIC18F46J50 includes Deep Sleep mode for low power applications, Peripheral Pin Select for design flexibility for mapping peripherals to I/O pins and a CTMU module for easy capacitive touch user interfaces. The PIC18F46J50 family is ideal for applications requiring cost-effective, low-power USB solutions with a robust peripheral set in a small package.

Development support for these XLP parts is provided by a Plug in Module (MA180024) shown below that can either be used independently or fitted to the PIC18 Explorer Board (DM183032).

PIC18F46J11 Nanowatt XLP™ PIC© MCU – General Purpose – 28 / 44 Pins

This family provides low power and high performance 8-bit MCU with peripheral flexibility in a small package for cost sensitive applications in the PIC18 J-series. New features include Deep sleep mode for low power applications, Peripheral Pin Select for design flexibility for mapping peripherals to I/O pins and a CTMU module for easy capacitive touch user interfaces. The PIC18F46J11 family is ideal for applications requiring cost-effective, low-power solutions with a robust peripheral set in a small package.

Development support for the PIC18F46J11 parts is provided by a Plug in Module ( MA180023) shown below that can either be used independently or fitted to the PIC18 Explorer Board (DM183032).

PIC24F 16-bit Microcontroller featuring nanoWatt XLP™ for extreme Low Power consumption. Designed for power constrained and battery powered applications. Features unique peripherals like DSBOR, DSWDT and RTCC which run in Deep Sleep mode for industry leading low power performance.

Development support for these XLP parts is provided by a Plug in Module (MA240017) shown below – that can be fitted to Microchip’s Explorer 16 development board.

Product information table:

Mftr’s Part No.	Product Description	Additional Information
PIC18F46J50-I/MLPIC18F46J50-I/ML	8-bit Microcontroller	44/QFN
PIC18F46J50-I/PTPIC18F46J50-I/PT	8-bit Microcontroller	44/QFP
PIC18F46J11-I/MLPIC18F46J11-I/ML	8-bit Microcontroller	44/QFN
PIC18F46J11-I/PTPIC18F46J11-I/PT	8-bit Microcontroller	44/QFP
PIC24F16KA102-I/MLPIC24F16KA102-I/ML	16-bit Microcontroller	28/QFN
PIC24F16KA102-I/SOPIC24F16KA102-I/SO	16-bit Microcontroller	20/SOIC
PIC24F16KA102-I/SPPIC24F16KA102-I/SP	16-bit Microcontroller	20/SPDIP
PIC24F16KA102-I/SSPIC24F16KA102-I/SS	16-bit Microcontroller	20/SSOP
PIC24F16KA101-I/PPIC24F16KA101-I/P	16-bit Microcontroller	20/PDIP
PIC24F16KA101-I/SOPIC24F16KA101-I/SO	16-bit Microcontroller	20/SOIC
PIC24F16KA101-I/SSPIC24F16KA101-I/SS	16-bit Microcontroller	20/SSOP
MA240017MA240017	Plug-In Module	PIC24F16KA102 PIM
MA180023MA180023	Plug-In Module	PIC18F46J11 PIM
MA180024MA180024	FS USB Demo Board	PIC18F46J50
DM183032DM183032	PIC18 Explorer Board
DM240001DM240001	PIC16 Explorer Board

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