– including 10/100 Ethernet MAC, Hi-Speed USB MAC/PHY (a first for PIC® microcontrollers), and two CAN ports – all necessary to meet today's demanding applications. The PIC32MZ family also achieves the highest code density in its class, 30% higher than its competitors, along with a 28 Msps A/D converter that delivers one of the fastest data processing speeds for 32-bit microcontrollers. To complete the family's high level of integration, it features a high-performance hardware cryptographic engine with a random number generator for high-speed data encryption/decryption and authentication such as AES, 3DES, SHA, MD5, and HMAC, as well as the first SQI interface on a Microchip microcontroller and the largest number of serial channels among PIC32s.
Embedded system designers face increasingly demanding requirements for added features that require more performance and memory from the microcontroller. At the same time, they expect to reduce cost and complexity by using fewer microcontrollers. The PIC32MZ family triples the performance and quadruples the memory of the previous generation PIC32MX family, along with a high level of integration for advanced peripherals. For applications requiring embedded connectivity, the family incorporates Hi-Speed USB, Ethernet, and CAN, as well as a wide range of protocol stacks for wired and wireless connections. Many embedded applications are incorporating improved graphics displays, and the PIC32MZ family can even support WQVGA displays without external graphics chips. Streaming/digital audio applications can take advantage of this family's 159 DSP instructions, large memory, peripherals such as I2S, and available software.
Field updates represent another increasingly important challenge for engineers and designers. The PIC32MZ family's 2 MB of internal Flash enables real-time updates via two independent panels, providing a safe way to perform the update while working at full speed.
The PIC32MZ is Microchip's first microcontroller to employ Imagination's microAptiv™ MIPS core, which adds 159 new DSP instructions that enable the execution of DSP algorithms with up to 75% fewer cycles than the PIC32MX family. This core also provides the microMIPS® instruction set architecture, which improves code density while operating at near-full speed, instruction and data cache, and, with its 200 MHz/330 DMIPS, triples the performance of the PIC32MX.
Microchip now offers three new development tools for the PIC32MZ. The complete PIC32MZ EC Starter Kit is priced at $119 and is available in two versions to support components with an integrated cryptographic engine (DM320006-2) or without (DM320006). The Multimedia Expansion Board II (DM320005-2) is available at a special introductory price of $299 for the first six months and can be used with the Starter Kit to develop HMI graphics, connectivity, and audio applications. The 168-to-132-pin Starter Kit Adapter (AC320006) is priced at $59 and enables development with Microchip's extensive catalog of application-specific daughterboards. The plug-in module (PIC32MZ2048EC Plug-in Module - MA320012) is priced at $25 and is aimed at existing users of the Explorer 16 modular development board.
The first 12 members of the PIC32MZ family are expected to be available for sampling and volume production starting in September 2013, while the availability of the other 12 members, as well as other package options, is planned for various dates up to May 2014. The cryptographic engine is integrated into eight of the PIC32MZ microcontrollers; in addition, 12 microcontrollers have 1 MB of Flash memory and another 12 have 2 MB of Flash memory.
These are the family members and their package options: 64-pin QFN (9x9 mm) and TQFP (9x9 mm) for the PIC32MZ2048ECH064; 100-pin TQFP (12x12 and 14x14 mm) for the PIC32MZ2048ECH100; 124-pin VTLA (9x9 mm) for the PIC32MZ2048ECH124; and 144-pin TQFP (16x16 mm) and LQFP (20x20 mm) for the PIC32MZ2048ECH144. The versions with integrated cryptographic engine are PIC32MZ2048ECM064, PIC32MZ2048ECM100, PIC32MZ2048ECM124 and PIC32MZ2048ECM144.
