For the highest performance, dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) are designed to run powerful algorithms to maximize efficiency across widely varying load and environmental conditions. They have the performance to close the control loop using algorithms implemented in firmware. Fully digital power supplies are a competitive necessity in applications where efficiency requirements are stringent, transient response is critical and monitoring/reporting are mandatory for maximum uptime. This approach is ideal for server, networking and telecom infrastructure equipment, renewable energy hardware and wireless power applications.
A high-performance Digital Signal Processor (DSP) engine and specialized peripherals are essential when you are implementing advanced software digital control loops for power applications. dsPIC DSCs feature a high-performance CPU and rich peripherals to create advanced power conversion designs with minimal requirements for external circuitry. The DSP engine performs single-cycle Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) with up to 40 bits of resolution, data saturation, barrel shifting and zero overhead looping to support fast control loop execution. Peripherals such as high-speed PWM generators, ADCs, Programmable Gain Amplifiers (PGAs) and high-speed analog comparators can be tied together using an internal, configurable control fabric, so they can interact directly with one another, resulting in stunning performance gains in digital power applications.
Our high-performance dsPIC33A Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) with a 32-bit CPU offer up to 200 MHz performance and a Double-Precision Floating-Point Unit (DP-FPU) coprocessor. These DSCs:
Our single- and dual-core dsPIC33C DSCs operate at up to 100 MHz/core and feature advanced on-chip peripherals for designing applications that target high-performance, intelligent power supplies.
These DSCs help you design different functions separately and integrate seamlessly using the main and secondary cores:
This demo application utilizes a dsPIC33C MPT secure DSC or the dsPIC33C DSC in conjunction with the TA100 CryptoAutomotive™ security IC to implement the Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM) specification. This enables a digital power solution that satisfies the security requirements for an OCP-compliant power supply.
Accelerate the development of your digital power designs with the MPLAB PowerSmart Development Suite, a user-friendly design ecosystem that eliminates the need to manually write DSP-specific code for dsPIC33 DSCs.
This demonstration board, with different power boards, showcases the features of the dsPIC33AK512MPS506 DSC.
This demonstration board, with different power boards, showcases the features of the dsPIC33AK128MC106 DSC.
The dsPIC33C Digital Power Starter Kit introduces and demonstrates the capabilities and features of our Switched Mode Power Supply (SMPS) families of devices. It features the on-board dsPIC33CK256MP505 DSC.
This development kit provides safe voltage levels at moderate power, while designing algorithms on a boost power factor correction topology, and utilizes the dsPIC33EP128GS806 device, which supports full digital and advanced power control algorithm schemes.
This is a generic development board implementing interleaved LLC topology that supports rapid prototyping and code development, based on the dsPIC33 DSCs. The board is compatible with the dsPIC33EP, dsPIC33CK and dsPIC33CH digital power Plug-in Modules (PIM).
This demo board showcases the features of the dsPIC33EP128GS806 DSC. The digital power PIM provides access to the dsPIC33EP128GS806 analog inputs, the DAC outputs, the PWM outputs and the General-Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) ports.
This demonstration board showcases the features of the dsPIC33CK256MP506 DSC by using different power boards.
This demonstration board, with different power boards, showcases the features of the dsPIC33CH512MP506 DSC.
This development board provides flexible measurement platform for all compatible dsPIC33’s Digital Power PIMs. These digital power PIM modules can be inserted into the mating socket in the middle of the digital power development board.
Use this expandable, highly-configurable software program to create, debug, and qualify your embedded designs for your dsPIC DSC.
MPLAB Discover is a catalog of fully configured and complete source code, projects, examples and software applications for dsPIC DSCs to jump-start your next project.
Configure your MCU's rich set of peripherals and functions and customize your application with this graphical programming plug-in for MPLAB X IDE.
Compile your software with world-class optimizations that reduce your code size and increase efficiency.
Accelerate the development of your Switched-Mode Power Supplies (SMPS) with the MPLAB PowerSmart Development Suite, a user-friendly design ecosystem that eliminates the need to manually write DSP-specific code for dsPIC33 DSCs.
Learn how the dsPIC33 Digital Signal Controller which includes a powerful DSP Core, high-speed ADCs, high resolution PWMs, provides a high level of programmability, enables standards based wireless charging solutions. The dsPIC33 based 15W transmitter complies with the Qi standard, and supports CAN, NFC and authentication. The 200W Transmitter/Receiver solution developed with a custom controller is targeted for applications such as power tools, industrial robots etc., provides greater than 90% efficiency and includes an advanced foreign object detection scheme.
Learn how the dsPIC33 Digital Signal Controller which includes a powerful DSP Core, high-speed ADCs, high resolution PWMs, provides a high level of programmability, enables standards based wireless charging solutions. The dsPIC33 based 15W transmitter complies with the Qi standard, and supports CAN, NFC and authentication. The 200W Transmitter/Receiver solution developed with a custom controller is targeted for applications such as power tools, industrial robots etc., provides greater than 90% efficiency and includes an advanced foreign object detection scheme.
This video explains a 100-200W inductive wireless power transmitter/receiver solution. The solution operates in the input voltage range of 8-24V DC. This highly efficient solution with an in-band communication scheme and advanced foreign object detection is implemented effectively with Microchip’s high-performance digital controllers.
This video introduces Microchip’s latest dsPIC33C family of DSCs offering single core and dual core variants for time-critical control and high-performance embedded applications.
This video is a quick introduction to the high-performance dual-core and peripheral of the dsPIC33CH family of DSCs. Learn how to take advantages of the new features of the dsPIC33CH family of DSCs, in your next real-time embedded system development.
This video will demonstrate the basic setup of MPLAB® Code Configurator for a dual-core dsPIC DSCs.
This video will introduce you to one of our new peripherals, the Peripheral Trigger Generator or commonly referred as PTG, available on 16-bit dsPIC33 digital signal controllers. The video will give a glimpse into the capabilities of PTG peripheral, which can help you in addressing the challenges of sequencing asynchronous tasks and event triggers.
This is a Live Update demonstration of the power supply firmware using Microchip’s new dsPIC33EP ‘GS’ devices. These devices contain two flash partitions such that programming of the inactive partition can occur without stalling the CPU which then leads to continuous regulation of the power supply (i.e. no down time to update PSU firmware). The demonstration shows an extreme case where the compensator is being changed from an poorly designed 2P2Z compensator to a properly designed 3P3Z compensator.
Microchip's dsPIC® digital signal controller digitally controls different power supply topologies. On display at Microchip’s Design West booth were several of Microchip’s digital power reference designs, including the solar micro inverter, LLC resonant converter, quarter brick DC/DC and LED development board.