Many of today’s MCU applications require very low power consumption to extend battery life and reduce electricity demand. Microchip’s new PIC18F47J13PIC18F47J13 offers high memory density and low power in a small-footprint package to keep power budgets and BOM costs low.
The 8-bit MCU is said to be the industry’s first to feature 128 KB Flash program memory in a 28-pin package. Also available in a 44-pin package, the part uses Microship’s XLP (eXtreme Low Power) technology and incorporates mTouchcapability for implementing capacitive touch sensing user interfaces and an on-chip 12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC).
Pricing starts at $2.11 each, in 10,000-unit quantities.
It may be that in some cases the package is an advantage but I'm not sure that it is especially cheap - is it any cheaper than a STM32F100CB, ARM Cortex, 128k Flash, 48 pin with many nice peripherals on board including DAC, 12 bit ADC, CRC generator, DMA, etc etc.
atmel has been making 128K 8bit mcu's for years, they do the mega128 and a low power version, the chip is so easy to use, i did most of my work at uni on this chip, it only has a 10 bit adc though and is getting on a bit now....
i still think atmel is miles ahead of microchip in the 8bit market, just a pity not in market share or cost.......microchip have always dominated there, lol
we use both microchip and atmel MCU's here, our current product development is basied around the PIC32 family, the new architecture is easy to learn and very powerful, some of the internal core operates more like a desktop PC core, with pipelined fetching ect, all of this with full C compatability, unlike other microchip products, lol.....
