eXtreme Low Power PIC® Microcontrollers with XLP Technology
Applications
How do you plan to use XLP Technology in your application or design? Here are some examples of how XLP Technology can take your applications to bigger and better places.
Portable Medical Devices
VIEWThe pace of innovation in the development of electronic medical devices is nothing short of revolutionary. Microchip’s products and experience have helped hundreds of the world’s top medical device companies take their ideas from future vision to market reality.
- XLP MCUs enable long battery life and small form factor for ease of use
- Human interfaces with capacitive touch sensing or touch screens
- Low power MCUs with USB connectivity and 12-bit ADC for accurate measurements
- Integrated LCD drivers for segmented or graphical displays
- Operate from a single cell battery with MCP1640 and other switching regulators
- Ideal for glucose meter, ECG/EKG, oxygen concentrator, digital thermometer, CPAP, blood pressure meter, pulse oximeter
- Medical Devices Design Center
Thermostats
VIEWDemonstrate the flexibility of the PIC® microcontroller platform for a range of thermostats from a low cost, segmented display to a fully featured graphical display with touch sensing.
- Low power MCUs with integrated LCD driver such as PIC16F1939 or PIC18F87K90
- Low power wireless modules for communication
- Large memory LCD MCUs support RF stacks
- Enable modern human interfaces with capacitive touch sensing or touch screens
- Operate from a single cell battery with MCP1640 and other switching regulators
- Choose from a variety of temperature sensors
- Thermostat Case Study
Smart Energy
VIEWFinding credible partners and solutions for your Smart Energy and Smart Grid applications can be difficult. Whether it's the latest communication protocol, advanced user interface technologies, or finding the most advanced low power products, Microchip is here to partner with you to make your applications successful.
- Complete solutions for water, gas, heat and electric meters
- XLP MCUs enable 20+ years battery life
- Energy monitoring with Reference Implementation for Google PowerMeter™
- Supports both Wired Ethernet and Wi-Fi® communication
- Smart Energy Design Center
Wireless
VIEWMicrochip is enabling our PIC® microcontroller customers with cost effective, easy to implement wireless solutions. We offer transmitter, receiver, and transceiver solutions for IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee®, ISM Band Sub-GHz, and IEEE 802.11. Combined with the PIC microcontroller, analog, and memory products Microchip is able to provide a complete wireless solution.
- Develop ZigBee® networks with low power radio modules and XLP MCUs to run protocols like RF4CE
- Use our certified embedded Wi-Fi® modules with low power MCUs running the Free TCP-IP stack
- Expand to use energy harvesting for battery free systems
- Wireless Design Center
Security
VIEWMicrochip offers a family of low power ionization and photoelectric smoke detector ICs for smoke detector and security applications. Microchip’s ionization and photoelectric smoke detector families provide all the components necessary for ionization or photoelectric type smoke detectors.
- Integrated LCD drivers for segmented or graphical displays
- Integrated touch sensing for human interface on control panel
- Low power MCUs and RF modules for wireless sensors
- Operate from a single cell battery with MCP1640 and other switching regulators
- Safety and Security Design Center
USB
VIEWUniversal Serial Bus is a bus standard for serial communication. Originally intended as a replacement for serial and parallel connections on a PC to connect mice, keyboards and printers, it has grown to be the standard interface between a PC and its many and varied peripherals.
- XLP MCUs with integrated USB device, host and OTG
- Use free USB software libraries and demo code or pair any XLP MCU with the MCP2200 USB to UART serial converter
- Extend the battery life for products that use USB for data upload/download
- Ideal for audio accessories, data loggers, portable handheld devices and tracking equipment
- USB Design Center
Energy Harvesting
VIEWThe XLP 16-bit Energy Harvesting Development Kit is a true development platform for realizing energy harvesting applications.
- XLP MCUs enable battery free and power constrained applications
- Energy harvesting development platforms with PIC® MCU for power condition and capacity monitoring
- Add wireless PICtail™ daughter card for RF connectivity
- Ideal for RF sensors, temperature sensors, remote controls and security sensors
- Energy Harvesting Development Solution featuring wireless power & communication
- Energy Harvesting Design Center
Smart Cards
VIEWMicrochip’s smart card library supports PIC18 & PIC24 microcontrollers as well as providing the API necessary to communicate with the ISO7816-3/4 compliant smartcard.
- XLP MCUs enable permanent batteries with longest life
- Integrated LCD drivers for smart cards with displays
- Small form factor with die and chip-scale package options
- Free ISO-7816 Smart Card software library
- Smart Card Design Center
