Microchip Technology today announced two new families of 8-bit microcontrollers.
The PIC18F “K22” MCUs provide operation from 1.8 to 5.5V, 8 to 128K flash memory, peripherals for mTouch capacitive touch sensing applications and a 12-bit Analog-to Digital (ADC) converter. Each of the five K22 family members feature Microchip’s nanowatt XLP technology for lower power operation, with sleep currents as low as 20nA. Samples and volume production are available immediately, according to the company.
Microchip’s PIC18F “K90” MCUs also feature nanoWatt XLP technology, 1.8-5.5V operation, a 12-bit ADC and a module for capacitive touch sensing but add an on-chip LCD driver module. This family comes in 64- and 80-pin packages with memory options ranging from 32KB to 128KB of flash and up to 4KB of RAM and 1 KB of on-chip EEPROM. Samples and volume production quantities are available today.