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AN746

Title
Title
Interfacing Microchip's MCP41XXX/42XXX Digital Potentiometers to a PICmicro Microcontroller
Name
Name
AN746
Date
Date
06/24/2015
Application Categories
Application Categories
Peripheral / SPI
Signal Conditioning & Measurement / Digital Potentiometer
Product Categories
Product Categories
8-bit MCU
Mixed Signal / Digital Potentiometers
Description
Description
The MCP41XXX and MCP42XXX family of digital potentiometers communicate using a standard 3-wire SPI? compatible interface. This application note will discuss communications between these devices and a PIC16F876 microcontroller. The code supplied with this application note will include both absolute and relocatable assembly code, written for both hardware SPI and firmware SPI implementations.

Files

Title Title Download Date Size
AN746 Source Code - Interfacing Microchip's MCP41XXX/42XXX Digital Potentiometers to a PICmicro MCU 8.5 KB 06/23/2015 AN746 Source Code - Interfacing Microchip's MCP41XXX/42XXX Digital Potentiometers to a PICmicro MCU Download 06/23/2015 8.5 KB

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