Microchip Technology was founded in 1987 when General Instrument spun off its microelectronics division as a wholly owned subsidiary. The newly formed company was a supplier of programmable non-volatile memory, microcontrollers, digital signal processors, card chip on board, and consumer integrated circuits. In-line with the general consolidation of the semiconductor industry, Microchip Technology purchased 17 semiconductor manufacturers from 2007 through 2017, including Atmel, Micrel, Microsemi, etc. Microchip's products include microcontrollers (PIC, dsPIC, AVR and SAM), Serial EEPROM devices, Serial SRAM devices, embedded security devices, radio frequency (RF) devices, thermal, power and battery management analog devices, as well as linear, interface and wireless products.

Microchip are a leading provider of smart, connected and secure embedded control solutions that enable low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to market for thousands of diverse applications for the industrial, automotive, consumer, aerospace and defense, communications and computing markets. Browse these product categories or use one of Microchip's product selection tools to find the right solutions for your next design.

8-bit microcontrollers

Microchip Technology's 8-bit portfolio consists of over 1,200 devices constructed under two architectures: PIC microcontrollers or AVR microcontrollers. Key features of the 8-bit microcontrollers are Core Independent Peripherals, low-power performance with picoPower and eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology and EMI/EMC performance.

16-bit microcontrollers

The 16-bit microcontrollers, such as the PIC24, offer an upgrade over the 8-bit devices in features and peripherals (e.g., more memory, additional pins). The 16-bit microcontrollers are constructed under the PIC microcontroller architecture.

32-bit microcontrollers

Microchip Technology's 32-bit product portfolio run at up to 600 DMIPs with up to 2048 KB Flash and 512 KB RAM with 32 MB integrated DDR2 dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) or 128 MB externally addressable options. The 32-bit portfolio addresses advanced graphics and Internet of things (IoT) applications.

32-bit microprocessors

The 32-bit Arm microprocessors were designed for applications beyond the 32-bit microcontrollers with 600 MHz (942 DMIPS) operation, support for up to 512 MD of external DDR2 or DDR3 DRAM and power down to 0.3 mW sleep. Available peripherals and users interfaces include gigabit Ethernet MAC addresses, USBs, hardware video decoding, capacitive sensing, 12-bit CMOS sensors, I²S audio interfaces and 24-bit graphic LCD controllers with overlays.

Journey through the various stages of embedded design with our easy-to-use portfolio of hardware and software development tools. You can discover, configure, develop, debug, qualify and go to market quickly using our development tools for PIC®, AVR® and SAM microcontrollers (MCUs), SAM microprocessors (MPUs) and dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs). Microchip have integrated Microchip's entire line of embedded software development tools with our embedded hardware development tools so you can harness the full capabilities of the MPLAB® development ecosystem to get a best-in-class experience.

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