MCU combines power savings with hardware acceleration

The Microchip PIC24FJ64GA002 MCU allows designers to use a combination of power-saving techniques while still maintaining timing-sensitive functions such as communication features.

A custom power-save instruction allows the application to put the device into Sleep mode, with clocks and execution halted, or Idle mode in which peripherals continue to operate. Peripherals can also be selectively disabled when the device enters Idle mode, to further optimise power savings. The device also provides multiple clock frequencies that can be selected under application control, to optimise power consumption under a wide range of operating conditions.

As a member of the PIC24® family, the PIC24FJ64GA002 has 16MIPS processing performance and meets the needs of real-time applications by achieving single-cycle instruction execution and hardware multiply.

On-chip peripherals support communication, I/O and analogue capabilities. Any digital peripheral can be mapped to any I/O pin, which enhances flexibility for designers.

Upgrading to the 40MIPS PIC24H-series MCUs is also easy, as the two families share key peripherals, pin-assignments, code and software tools.

 

FEATURES 0.65µA per MIPS operating current @ 2.0V 150nA typical sleep-mode current Two I2C modules for master and slave operation Two UART modules including LIN 1.2 support Multiple timing, counting and comparator modules

 

 

Development board starter kit DM300027 is available to members of the Future Board Club. For more information, go to Microchip's DM300027 Product Page or alternatively if you would like to order a board go to http://www.my-boardclub.com/manf-offers.htm This offer is free and subject to qualification.

 

Microchip PIC24FJ64GA002 MCU