One of [Bob’s] most treasured possessions is a Heathkit alarm clock he put together as a kid. Over the years he’s noticed a few problems with his clock. There isn’t a battery backup, so it resets when ...

Got a PIC32 microcontroller and a healthy curiousity about the Rust programming language and its low-level capabilities, but unsure how to squash the two of them together with a minimum of hassle? If ...

The PIC32 is a major departure from Microchip's bread-and-butter offering of 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers, so developing code for the PIC32 poses a new set of challenges. The highest ...

Microchip has added high-performance analogue blocks to its PIC32 MCUs: 12bit 40Msample/s ADCs, 5ns comparators and 100MHz GBW (gain.bandwidth) op-amps. There are implemented in in the new 32bit ...

Microchip has put together a top-notch evaluation package that introduces engineers to the power of its new 32-bit PIC32MX MCUs. The company's approach to documentation makes it easy to find manuals ...

I usually save the interesting dev kits for a holiday when I have a chance to really play with them. This is why I was looking forward to checking out Digilent's latest kit from its Mechatronics ...

There is now a version of FreeRTOS+Trace for Microchip’s PIC32 microcontrollers and MPLAB X IDE, thanks to a Swedish developer of RTOS visualization tools, Percepio AB. FreeRTOS+Trace is the standard ...

Microchip has delivered its Harmony framework for its latest PIC32 microcontroller to streamline application development. I talked with Rich Hoefle, Marketing Director, MCU32 Division at Microchip ...

Microchip has announced the availability of a PIC32 32bit microcontroller based development kit through Digilent. The Digilent Cerebot 32MX7 Development Kit is said to address the growing interest in ...