The peripherals included in this family offer users superior versatility and ease of use when creating custom hardware-based functions with user-friendly development tools. The configurable peripherals are intelligently interconnected to enable near-zero latency when sharing data, logic inputs, or analog signals without additional code, thus improving system responsiveness. Ideal for real-time control and connected applications such as home appliances, security systems, motor and industrial control, lighting, and the Internet of Things (IoT), the PIC18-Q43 family helps reduce board footprint, bill of materials, total cost of ownership, and time to market.
Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs) are peripherals that incorporate capabilities to handle various tasks without requiring CPU (Central Processing Unit) intervention. With CIPs including timers, simplified PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) output, CLC, A/D converter with compute (ADCC), and various serial communications, among others, this product family is designed to make it easier for developers to customize their design configurations. The CLC provides programmable logic whose speed exceeds the limitations imposed by software execution, thus offering customers the ability to adapt elements such as waveform generation and timing measurements. CLCs can be the "glue" logic for connecting integrated peripherals, enabling unprecedented ease of hardware customization.
Its core-independent communication interfaces, such as UART, SPI, and I2C, offer flexible and easy-to-use building blocks for developers trying to create a custom device, while the addition of multiple DMA channels and interrupt handling speeds up real-time control with simple software loops.
Thanks to Microchip's comprehensive suite of development tools, users can quickly and easily generate code and customize CIP combinations within a graphical user interface (GUI) environment. Furthermore, the family operates at 5V, increasing noise immunity and enabling customers to connect to a wide range of sensors.
“The PIC18-Q43 family offers CIPs that provide numerous functions and even complete control loops in integrated, customizable hardware,” said Greg Robinson, associate vice president of marketing for Microchip’s 8-bit microcontroller business unit. “By combining flexible CIPs with high analog electronics integration, users will significantly reduce development time and improve system performance by automating waveform control, timing and measurement operations, and logic functions.”.
Development Tools:
The PIC18-Q43 family is supported by Microchip's MPLAB® X IDE and MPLAB Xpress IDE development environments, as well as the MPLAB Code Configurator (MCC), a free software extension that provides a graphical interface for configuring peripherals and functions for a specific application. It is also supported by the PIC18F57Q43 Curiosity Nano board, a compact and cost-effective development board with programming and debugging capabilities.
Pricing and Availability:
The PIC18-Q43 product family offers a variety of memory sizes, packages, and prices to meet a wide range of application needs. All products are available for volume production and sampling in various packages. The starting volume price is $0.64 per unit.
