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Learn more about the MCP6N11, visit:

http://www.microchip.com/mcp6n11

Need a Low-Power, High-Accuracy Instrumentation Amplifer

with On-Chip Calibration or Enhanced Perormance?Microchip announced its rst instrumentation amplier, the MCP6N11. Thenew instrumentation amp eatures Microchips unique mCal technology, whichis an on-chip calibration circuit that enables low initial oset voltage and ameans to control oset drit, which results in higher accuracy across time andtemperature. The MCP6N11s low-power CMOS process technology enableslow power, while providing a gain bandwidth product o 500 kHz, and it eaturesa hardware shutdown pin or even more power savings. The devices low, 1.8Voperation allows two 1.5V batteries to be drained beyond typical use, and itsrail-to-rail input and output operation enables ull-range use, even in low-supplyconditions. The MCP6N11 instrumentation amp is ideal or applications inthe consumer, industrial and medical markets, such as in signal and sensorconditioning, and instrumentation.

Many applications in these markets require high-accuracy, low-power and low-voltage perormance, and the MCP6N11 meets those needs. The devicesmCal technology provides a highly accurate way to minimize drit over time and

temperature. Additionally, the devices low-power operation/shutdown requires less current or the given speed and perormance,which extends battery lie and leads to less sel-heating. The MCP6N11s low-voltage operation, with rail-to-rail input and output,enables a greater dynamic range, which improves perormance across the entire operating-voltage range.

This device provides an innovative solution or signal-conditioning applications that require great perormance at a competitiveprice point. The use o mCal technology within this productdemonstrates Microchips commitment to innovation, and provides a

distinct competitive advantage or our customers.The MCP6N11 instrumentation amp is supported by MicrochipsMCP6N11 Wheatstone Bridge Reerence Design (part # ARD00354).

The MCP6N11 CMOS Instrumentation Amplier is available in an8-pin SOIC package and an 8-pin 2x3 mm TDFN package.

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Microchip Introduces Smallest, Lowest-Cost PIC32 MicrocontrollersFeature-Packed 32-bit Microcontrollers Include I2S Interface for Audio Playback Applications;

Plus Capacitive Touch, USB 2.0 and Digital Pin Remapping

Microchip announced a new series o low pin count 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers (MCUs)that provide 61 DMIPS o perormance in packages as small as 5x5 mm or space-constrained and cost-sensitive designs. The PIC32 MX1 and MX2 MCUs are thesmallest and lowest-cost PIC32 microcontrollers, and are the rst PIC32 MCUs to eaturededicated audio and capacitive-sensing peripherals. These new MCUs include a hosto additional useul eatures that make them suitable or applications in the consumer,industrial, medical and automotive markets.

Rated or operation up to 105C, the PIC32 MX1 and MX2 MCUs include up to 32 KB oFlash, and 8 KB o SRAM; two I2S interaces or audio processing; Microchips Charge TimeMeasurement Unit (CTMU) peripheral or adding mTouch capacitive touch buttons oradvanced sensors; and an 8-bit Parallel Master Port (PMP) interace or graphics or externalmemory. The new devices also eature an on-chip 10-bit, 1 Msps, 13-channel Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), as well as USB 2.0 and serial-communications peripherals.The MCUs bring eight new packages to the PIC32 MCU product line, rom 28- to 44-pins,with sizes down to 5x5x0.5 mm. Further easing the design eort is Microchips Peripheral Pin Select (PPS) eature, which allows developers to remap

most digital-unction pins in the chip, making layout and design modications signicantly simpler. The PIC32 MX1 and MX2 devices are compatiblewith Microchips 16-bit PIC24F product line or easy migration, and are supported by the MPLAB X IDEthe single development environment or all oMicrochips 8-, 16- and 32-bit MCUs.

More designs in the consumer, industrial, medical and other markets are requiring high-quality audio, touch-sensing and graphics capabilities, as well asUSB communication. With their numerous on-chip peripherals and eatures in small packages, the PIC32 MX1 and MX2 enable designers to add all o thisunctionality, while keeping design size and costs low.

Microchip also unveiled the MPLAB Starter Kit or PIC32MX1XX/2XX MCUs (part # DM320013),today. The USB-powered kit eatures a PIC32MX220F032 with 32 KB o Flash and 8 KB RAM, as wellas a 2" color TFT display (220 x 176 pixel), capacitive-touch slider and buttons, SD-card storage and24-bit audio playback. Additionally, the new PIC32MX CTMU Evaluation Board (part # AC323027) isavailable, as well as the new PIC32MX220F032D Plug-In Module (part # MA320011) or the Explorer

16 Development Board.

The PIC32MX110F016B and PIC32MX220F032 MCUs are available in 28-pin SPDIP, SSOP, SOIC andQFN packages; and in 44-pin QFN, VTLA and TQFP packages. A 36-pin VTLA package option with a.5 mm pin pitch is available or limited sampling, today. Industrial temperature range products withoperation up to 85C are available today, with 105C options expected in late CQ4 2011.

To learn more about the PIC32 "MX1" and "MX2", visit:

http://www.microchip.com/en_US/amily/32bit/

Click to view a brie presentation on these products.

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Learn more about Microchip's Wireless Technical Seminars, visit:

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To learn more about Microchips PIC portolio, visit:

http://www.microchip.com/PIC

Microchip Announces Wider Temperature-Range

Qualifcation or 32-bit PIC32 MicrocontrollersPIC32 Microcontrollers Now Operate From -40C to +105C, Enabling Use in a Wide Range of Robust Applications

Microchip announced that the 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers (MCUs) now operate rom-40C to +105C, enabling their use in a wide range o robust applications. Examples

include applications in the communications, industrial, medical, automotive, applianceand renewable-energy market spaces, among others. The newly qualied V-Temp MCUscontinue to provide the wide variety o eatures or which the PIC32 MCUs are known including peripherals or connectivity, graphics, audio, touch sensing and industrial CAN bringing the most capable and cost-eective solutions to these targeted markets.

Many applications in the aorementioned markets must operate at higher temperatures oup to 105C. With their new, wider temperature-range qualication, designated as V-Temp,the PIC32 MCUs give designers the fexibility to add the eatures and unctionality thatwill help dierentiate their products in the marketplace, while maintaining the ability tooperate under extreme temperatures. Further, the MCUs provide ull access to up to128 KB RAM or simultaneous use with the Ethernet, USB and CAN buers; and the on-chip Ethernet, industrial CAN and USB modules have a built-in DMA interace to maximizedata throughput.

With industry-leading perormance and now a wider temperature-range qualication, thePIC32 MCUs enable Microchip's customers to design applications that need highertemperature tolerance with an exceptional price/perormance combination.

To evaluate the advanced eatures o the newly qualied PIC32 V-Temp MCUs, customerscan use Microchips complete PIC32 MCU tool suite. This includes low-cost starter kits;ull-eatured development and expansion boards; PICtail daughter boards and Plug-InModules; as well as debuggers, the MPLAB IDE and MPLAB C compilers.

The newly V-Temp qualied PIC32MX3/4/5/6/7 MCUs are available in 64-pin QFN andTQFP packages, as well as 121-pin TFBGA and 100-pin TQFP packages. Additionally, the

recently introduced PIC32 MX1/2 MCUs are also being extended to the V-Temp range, andare expected to be qualied in late CQ4 in 28-pin QFN, SOIC and SSOP packages, as wellas 44-pin QFN, TQFP and TLA packages.
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To learn more about Microchip's Memory portolio, visit:

http://www.microchip.com/memory

Need Parallel Flash Memory in an Ultra-Compact Package?Compact, Low-Power Devices Meet Demanding NOR Flash Market Requirements

Microchip announced an expansion o its Multi-Purpose Flash Plus (MPF+) memoryportolio, with the introduction o the SST39VF80XC and SST39VF160XC. TheSST39VF80XC oers 8 Mbit o memory, while the SST39VF160XC oers 16 Mbit omemory. Manuactured with high-perormance CMOS SuperFlashtechnology, these low-power, 3V, x16 parallel NOR Flash devices eature active current as low as 5 mA (typical)

and standby current o 3 microamperes (typical). Besides oering exceptional reliability,these devices eature xed program and erase times that do not deteriorate over time.The SST39VF80XC oers ast, 7 microseconds program time (typical) and access times o55 ns and 70 ns.

Both devices oer industry-compatible command sets, and are ideal or use inapplications such as consumer electronics (e.g. Bluetoothheadsets, camera modulesand gaming peripherals), automotive (e.g. car inotainment) and industrial (e.g. printers,alarms and meters). For applications that require reliable, low-power memory in compactpackages, these new MPF+ devices are also available in an ultra-compact, 4x6 mm, 48-pinWFBGA package, which is the industrys smallest ootprint or packaged devices, in thesedensities.

These new MPF+ products demonstrate Microchip's commitment to expanding it's NORFlash portolio. These devices give customers the small size, low power consumption andhigh perormance NOR Flash they require or their applications.

The SST39VF80XC comes in a 6x8 mm 48-pin BGA package. The device is also available in 4x6 mm 48-pin WFBGA and 12x20 mm 48-pin TSOP packages.The SST39VF160XC coems in a 6x8 mm 48-pin BGA package. The device is also available in 4x6 mm 48-pin WFBGA and 12x20 mm 48-pin TSOP packages.

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Microchip and Digilent Announce Embedded Motor Control

Cerebot MC7 Development Kit or Academia and HobbyistsKit is Ideal for Academic and Hobbyist Embedded Motor-Control Applications

Microchip Technology Inc. and Digilent, Inc., announced the availability o a Microchip dsPIC33 Digital Signal Controller (DSC)-based development kit. TheDigilent Cerebot MC7 Development Kit addresses the growing interest in embedded motor control rom the academic and hobbyist markets, and is

ideal or learning about microcontrollers and solving real problems. The kit includes a demonstration board that provides our hal-bridge circuits, eight RCservo motor connectors, the ability to use Digilent Pmod peripheral modules, and an integrated programming/debugging circuit that is compatible with theree MPLAB IDE. Example applications include university embedded-systems and communications classes, senior capstone projects, and numerous otheracademic and hobbyist projects.

The Cerebot MC7 board eatures our hal-bridge circuits that are rated or 24V at up to 5A. Thesehal bridges can be used to control two Brushed DC motors, two bi-polar stepper motors, oneBrushless DC motor and one uni-polar stepper motor. An onboard 5V, 4A switching regulator withan input voltage up to 24V simplies operation o the board, enabling it to operate rom a singlepower supply in embedded applications such as robotics. The onboard dsPIC33 DSC eatures128 KB internal Flash program memory and 16 KB internal SRAM, as well as numerous on-chipperipherals, including an advanced 8-channel motor-control PWM unit, an enhanced CAN controller,two Serial Peripheral Interaces (SPIs), timer/counters, serial-interace controllers, an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), and more. The Cerebot MC7 board combines two push buttons and ourLEDs or user I/O, as well as connections or two I2C busses, one o which contains an integratedserial EEPROM device.

The Cerebot MC7 board is an ideal embedded motor control and general-purpose microcontrollerexperimentation platorm or academics and hobbyists, said Clint Cole, president o Digilent Inc.It's our latest entry in the engineering education market."

Microchip continues to see an interest in advanced robotic applications in the academic andhobbyist markets. The Cerebot MC7 board is ideal or these types o applications, among manyothers requiring the advanced motor-control peripherals ound on Microchips industry-leadingdsPIC33 DSCs.

For development support, the ree version o Microchip's MPLAB IDE can be downloaded today.The MPLAB C Compiler or dsPICDSCs can be downloaded today.

The Cerebot MC7 Development Kit is available today. It can be purchased rom Digilent or rommicrochipDIRECT (part # TDGL007).

About Digilent Inc.

Digilent Inc. is a leader in providing academic and research solutions in high end electronicselds. Their headquarters are in Pullman Washington, with oces in Taiwan, China and Romania.Currently, over 1000 universities, training centers and research laboratories in more than 70countries use Digilent products and services. For more inormation, please visit the Digilent Website. Watch the video demo o the Cerebot MC7.
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In the past, the term instrumentation amplier has been conused,reerring to the application rather than the architecture o thedevice. Historically, any amplier that was considered precision(implemented some sort o input oset correction) was thought tobe an instrumentation amplier since it was designed or use in

measurement systems. Instrumentation ampliers, or INAs, are related toop amps, in that they are based on the same basic building blocks, butan INA is a specialized version o an op amp.

The most notable dierence in terms o use is the lack o a eedbackloop. As you may recall, op amps can be congured or inverting gains,non-inverting gains, voltage ollowers, integrators, lters, etc. In all cases,the user is providing a eedback loop, and that eedback loop determinesthe unction o the amplier circuit. An INA has this eedback internally,so there isnt an external eedback to the input pins. INAs are specicallydesigned and used or their dierential gain and common mode rejectioncapabilities.

The rst question one may have is, Cant I build an instrumentationamplier out o simple op amps? The shor t answer is yes, you can. Butthere are always trade-os! One may rst think o a simple dierenceamp circuit (Figure 1), sometimes called a subtractor. This is a verysimple circuit that provides or dierential gain and has some commonmode rejection, which is exactly what an INA is intended to do. Earlier Imentioned trade-os, and this circuit has a couple. First o all, lets lookat the input impedance. It is relatively low, determined by the values othe resistors, which may be on the order o 100 k. Secondly, the inputimpedances arent matched, meaning a dierent current will fow througheach leg, causing your common mode rejection to suer. The othershortcoming o this simple circuit is the need or resistor matching. Anymismatch in these resistor pairs will again reduce the Common Moderejection.

You may have seen the popular 3 op amp instrumentation amplier,shown in Figure 2. This oers some signicant improvements over thesimple dierential amp circuit. The buers on the ront end provide a highimpedance, well matched impedance source. The dierential amp at theend provides the same rejection o common mode as the dierence amppreviously discussed. One still has the issue with resistor matching, andthis requires three op amps (not to mention some passives), so this isntsaving much in terms o cost relative to a monolithic INA.

Operational Amplifers Versus Instrumentation Amplifers:Whats the Dierence?

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Microchip recently introduced its rst INA, the MCP6N11. This singleinstrumentation amplier is available in two package oerings, 8-pin SOICand 2x3 TDFN. The use o mCal technology, which is an on-board digital sel-calibration, provides or low oset and low oset drit (by allowing the user tore-calibrate the amplier via the CAL pin). The MCP6N11 provides 500 kHzo bandwidth, operates rail-to-rail on the input and output and supports an

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Code metrics are oten used to assist sotware project management. TheCCS C Compiler IDE (SW500024) measures and calculates the mostcommon metrics used to evaluate source code, including Halsteadscomplexity metrics, Cyclomatic Complexity, and the Maintainability Index.Sotware project managers can use these to identiy problems in sourcecode and to determine testing procedures. Code metrics can speedup the decision making process, and provide justication or sotware

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The Halstead metrics were developed by Maurice H. Halstead and arederived rom the unique and total number o operators and operandsin the program. Halstead based his metrics in psychology and how thehuman brain is able to keep track o what makes up the total program.The CCS compiler calculates the Volume and Diculty metric or eachunction and or the whole program. To understand these metrics,consider the ollowing examples:

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Doc. Type Doc. Title DS No.

Data Sheet MCP2140A - IrDAStandard Protocol Stack ControllerWith Fixed 9600 Baud Communication Rate

22050B

23X256 Data Sheet 22100F

23X640 Data Sheet 22126E

MCP6N11 Data Sheet 25073A

MCP9808 Data Sheet 25095A

PIC24FJ128GA310 Family Data Sheet 39996F

PIC18(L)F1XK22 Data Sheet 41365E

PIC16(L)F1508/09 Data Sheet 41609A

PIC32MX1XX/2XX Data Sheet 61168C

MCW1001A Data Sheet 70671A

Errata PIC18F85J11 Family Silicon/Data Sheet Errata 80383F

PIC32MX3XX/4XX Family Silicon Errata and Data Sheet

Clarication80440F

PIC32MX575/675/695/775/795 Family Silicon Errataand Data Sheet Clarication 80480H

PIC18F85J90 Family Silicon/Data Sheet Errata 80488D

PIC32MX534/564/664/764 Family Silicon Errata and

Data Sheet Clarication80511E

PIC32MX110/120/210/220 Family Silicon Errata and

Data Sheet Clarication80531A

Programming

SpecifcationPIC10F320 Flash Memory Programming 41572C

Doc. Type Doc. Title DS No.

FRM Section PIC24F Family Reerence Manual, Section 57. Power-SavingFeatures with Vbat

30622A

PIC32 Family Reerence Manual, Section 23. Serial

Peripheral Interace (SPI)61106G

PIC32 Family Reerence Manual, Section 24. I2C 61116E

PIC32 Family Reerence Manual, Section 7. Resets 61118FPIC32 Family Reerence Manual, Section 35. Ethernet

Controller61155B

User's Guide MCP47X6 PICtail Plus Daughter Board User's Guide 51932B

MCP6H04 Evaluation Board User's Guide 52005A

Application

Note

Grid-Connected Solar Microinverter Reerence Design

Using a dsPICDigital Signal Controller01338D

AN1279 - Ofine UPS Reerence Design Using the dsPIC

DSC01279B

Product

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