Low-Power Microcontroller Applications

The pace of innovation in wearable and portable electronic devices is nothing short of revolutionary. Our products and experience have helped hundreds of the world’s top medical device companies take their ideas from future vision to market reality.

• Low-power MCUs enable long battery life and small form factor for ease of use
• Human interfaces with capacitive touch sensing or touch screens
• Integrated LCD drivers for segmented or graphical displays
• Operate from a single cell battery with MCP1640 and other switching regulators
• Ideal for fitness monitors, glucose meters, blood pressure meters (sphygmomanometer), ECG/EKG machines, oxygen concentrators, digital thermometers, CPAPs, pulse oximeters

Take advantage of the flexibility of the PIC^® microcontroller platform for a range of thermostats designs, from a low-cost, segmented display to a fully featured graphical display with touch sensing.

• Low-power MCUs with an integrated LCD driver such as PIC16F1939 or PIC24FJ128GA310 support up to 480 segment LCDs for rich information displays
• Low-power wireless modules connect you to the IoT
• Large-memory LCD MCUs support RF stacks
• Enable modern human interfaces with capacitive touch sensing or touch screens
• Operate from a single cell battery with MCP1640 and other switching regulators
• Choose from a variety of temperature sensors

Finding credible partners and solutions for your smart energy and smart grid applications can be difficult. Whether it's the latest communication protocol, advanced user interface technologies, or finding the most advanced low power products, we are here to partner with you to make your applications successful.

• Complete solutions for water, gas, heat and electric meters
• Low-power MCUs enable up to 20+ years battery life
• Support for wired Ethernet, Bluetooth^®, IEEE^® 802.15.4, and Wi-Fi^® communication
• Smart Energy Design Center

We offer a variety of cost-effective, easy-to-implement wireless solutions. We offer transmitter, receiver, and transceiver solutions for IEEE 802.15.4/Zigbee^®, ISM band sub-GHz, Bluetooth, and IEEE 802.11. These solutions can be combined with our microcontrollers, analog, and memory products to provide a complete wireless solution for your IoT or cloud-connected application.

• Develop Zigbee networks with low-power radio modules and low-power MCUs to run protocols like RF4CE
• Use our certified embedded Wi-Fi or Bluetooth modules
• Wireless Design Center

We offer a family of low-power ionization and photoelectric smoke detector ICs for smoke detector and security applications. Our ionization and photoelectric smoke detector ICs provide all the components necessary for ionization or photoelectric type smoke detectors.

• Integrated LCD drivers for segmented or graphical displays
• Integrated touch sensing for human interface on control panel
• Low power MCUs and RF modules for wireless sensors
• Operate from a single cell battery with MCP1640 and other switching regulators

Universal Serial Bus is a bus standard for serial communication. Originally intended as a replacement for serial and parallel connections on a PC to connect mice, keyboards and printers, it has grown to be the standard interface between a PC and its many and varied peripherals.

• Low-power MCUs with integrated USB device, host and OTG
• Use free USB software libraries and demo code or pair any low-power MCU with the MCP2200 USB-to-UART serial converter
• Extend the battery life for products that use USB for data upload/download
• Ideal for audio accessories, data loggers, portable handheld devices and tracking equipment

Take your next idea to market with a development board that you can keep in your pocket. With full program and debug capabilities, the ATmega4809 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit offers complete support for your next design.

With full program and debug capabilities, the PIC16F18446 Curiosity Nano offers complete support for your next design. Use it with MPLAB^® X IDE and MPLAB Code Configurator (MCC) to access to the Intelligent Analog and Core Independent Peripherals on the PIC16F18446 MCU.

The Microchip Curiosity Nano Base for Click boards is a hardware extension platform to ease the connection between Curiosity Nano kits and extension boards like MikroElektronika’s Click boards and Xplained Pro extension boards.

The Explorer 16/32 Development Kit is a flexible, convenient and ready-to-start development, demonstration and testing platform for 16-bit PIC24 MCUs, dsPIC^® DSCs and 32-bit PIC32 MCUs. It comes with the main development board, a PIC24FJ1024GB610 Plug-in Module (PIM) and USB A to micro-B and USB A to Type-C cables.

The PIC24FJ256GA7 Curiosity Development Board is a cost-effective, fully integrated 16-bit development platform featuring a PIC24FJ56GA705 XLP MCU. It offers an integrated programmer/debugger and dual MikroElektronika mikroBUS™ interfaces to add Click boards for expanding your application. Requiring no additional hardware, this board serves as a perfect tool for evaluating and prototyping your designs.

The LCD Explorer XLP Development Board enables development with 100-pin 16-bit PIC^® XLP MCUs. It comes with a 100-pin PIC24FJ128GA310 LCD PIM and provides an ideal platform for evaluating MCUs with a x8 common LCD driver on a 38-segment × 8 common LCD display.

The SAMA5D2 Xplained Ultra Evaluation Kit is a fast prototyping and evaluation platform for the SAMA5D2 series of MPUs. The board includes eMMC and DDR3 memories as well as a rich set of connectivity options. Its connectors and expansion headers allow for easy customization and quick access to leading-edge embedded features such as the Class D amplifier or the Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC). A Linux^® distribution and software package allows you to easily get started with your development.

The SAMA5D27 SOM1 Kit1 is a fast prototyping and evaluation platform for the SAMA5D2-based System in Packages (SiPs) and the SAMA5D27 System on Module (SAMA5D27-SOM1).

XLP Battery Life Estimator is a free software utility to aid you in developing low-power applications with our low-power microcontrollers. The tool estimates average current consumption and battery life. The utility allows you to select the target device, battery type, the application’s operating conditions (such as voltage and temperature) and finally model the active and power-down times for your applications.