Upgrade the Performance in Your Real-World and Time-Critical Designs
Motor control, digital power, advanced sensing and control, safety-critical and high-performance embedded applications come with an array of design challenges. You might need to implement high-precision variable speed in a motor control application or high-speed control loop execution in a power conversion application. Your design may need functional safety compliance, or your industrial automation application may require math-intensive functions. To address these real-world design requirements, you need a high-performance solution that provides the processing power of a Digital Signal Controller (DSC) and the design simplicity of a microcontroller (MCU).
The high-performance dsPIC33C family of DSCs features the dsPIC33 “C” core with a Digital Signal Processing (DSP) engine, expanded context-selected registers to reduce interrupt latency, new instructions to accelerate DSP performance, tightly coupled peripherals, and faster execution to enable complex, high-speed control loop implementation. Offering 100 MIPS performance, the dsPIC33C family of DSCs provides a path for users of dsPIC33E and dsPIC33F DSCs to develop more sophisticated applications.
Dual-Core and Single-Core Flexibility
dsPIC33CH Dual-Core DSCs
- Two dsPIC33 DSCs on a single chip
- Different software teams can independently develop code for each core and later integrate it seamlessly into one chip
- One integrated chip saves cost and board space
- Independent cores and peripherals facilitate safety-critical and real-time operations
dsPIC33CK Single-Core DSCs
- Cost-effective single-core option with the same high-performance core and peripherals as dsPIC33CH DSCs
- Offers the simplicity of a microcontroller and application-specific peripherals and features
- Provides a performance upgrade path for dsPIC33E and dsPIC33F DSC users
dsPIC33C MPT Secure DSCs With Integrated HSM
- Immutable secure boot
- Secure firmware upgrade (with live update)
- Secure on-board communication and message authentication
- Electronic Control Unit (ECU) authentication
- WPC 1.3 Qi® high-power wireless charger authentication
- Flash configurable as One-Time Programmable (OTP) memory
dsPIC33C DSC-Based Integrated Motor Drivers
- Integrated dsPIC33 DSC, full-bridge MOSFET gate driver and a LIN or CAN FD transceiver in one device
- Reduced component count and board size to reduce system cost
- Complete ecosystem with hardware and software tools to enable faster time to market
- AEC Q100 Grade 0 certification to support operation between −40°C and 150°C
dsPIC33C MPT Secure DSCs With Integrated HSM
- Immutable secure boot
- Secure firmware upgrade (with live update)
- Secure on-board communication and message authentication
- Electronic Control Unit (ECU) authentication
- WPC 1.3 Qi® high-power wireless charger authentication
- Flash configurable as One-Time Programmable (OTP) memory
General-Purpose, High-Performance and Robust Designs
dsPIC33C DSCs offer a rich set of peripherals designed to meet diverse needs of demanding high-performance applications. These DSCs offer accelerated CPU performance and a high level of analog integration for real-time control, robust connectivity and advanced sensor interfacing applications.
Motor Control
dsPIC33C DSCs feature integrated high-resolution Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM), dedicated time bases and fast 12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) peripherals. They are optimized for applications that require variable speed with constant torque and Field-Oriented Control (FOC) for greater efficiency.
Digital Power Conversion
The dsPIC33C family of DSCs features dedicated peripherals, including advanced analog and multiple high-resolution PWM generators, to improve the efficiency of digital power conversion and lighting applications that function over widely varying load conditions.
Functional Safety
dsPIC33C DSCs are functional safety ready/compliant and offer hardware safety features, FMEDA, safety manual and diagnostic routines that can be easily integrated into your safety-critical designs. These functional safety ready/compliant DSCs are excellent choices for applications targeting ISO 26262 ASIL B, IEC 61508 SIL 2 and IEC 60730 Class B standards.
Embedded Security
Our high-performance dsPIC33C DSCs, combined with our ATECC608 CryptoAuthentication™ and TrustAnchor100 (TA100) CryptoAutomotive™ security ICs, and our dsPIC33C MPT family of secure DSCs, which feature an off-die integrated secure subsystem that is based on the Hardware Security Module (HSM) architecture and compliant with the EVITA Full specification for automotive security, allow you to implement robust security in your designs.
Featured Hardware Tools
Our most popular hardware development boards available for dsPIC33 products are shown below. To learn more about various development boards, please visit the Hardware Development Tools page.
dsPIC33CH Curiosity Development Board
Part Number: DM330028-2
The dsPIC33CH Curiosity Development Board (DM330028-2) is intended as a cost effective development and demonstration platform for the entire dsPIC33CH family of dual core high performance digital signal controllers.
dsPIC33CK Curiosity Development Board
Part Number: DM330030
The dsPIC33CK Curiosity Development Board (DM330030) is a cost-effective development and demonstration platform for the dsPIC33CK family of single-core high performance digital signal controllers.
dsPIC33CK64MC105 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit
Part Number: EV88G73A
Quickly prototype your application using the high-performance dsPIC33CK DSC with our cost-effective dsPIC33CK64MC105 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit that includes an on-board debugger.
dsPICDEM™ MCLV-2 Development Board
Part Number: DM330021-2
The dsPICDEM™ MCLV-2 Development Board provides a cost-effective method of evaluating and developing 3-phase sensored or sensorless Brushless DC (BLDC) and Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) control applications
dsPIC33C Digital Power Starter Kit
Part Number: DM330017-3
dsPIC33C Digital Power Starter Kit introduces and demonstrate the capabilities and features of Microchip's SMPS families of devices.
MPLAB® Development Ecosystem and Software Tools
MPLAB® Code Configurator
A free graphical programming environment that generates seamless, easy-to-understand C code
MPLAB® XC Compiler
A comprehensive solution for your software development that integrates with MPLAB X IDE to provide a full graphical front end
Brochures
Microchip University Courses
Designing and Implementing a CAN FD Network
This free class covers CAN FD protocol and physical layer by guiding you through a CAN FD network design and implementation based on an example application.
dsPIC33C DSC Peripheral Deep Dive
This class presents deep-dive information on the architecture, set up, demonstration and pitfalls of the most common dsPIC33C peripherals.
dsPIC33CK64MC105 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit Overview
The dsPIC33CK64MC105 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit is a cost-effective hardware platform to evaluate the dsPIC33CK family of high-performance Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs). Find out how easy it is to get started with the dsPIC33CK Curiosity Evaluation Kit and explore our dsPIC33 DSCs for your next design.
AUTOSAR Ecosystem for dsPIC33C DSCs
Our dsPIC33C family of AUTOSAR-ready DSCs addresses the challenge of increasing software complexity by providing an open and exchangeable solution to standardize the software architecture for automotive ECUs. These DSCs support our ASIL B- and ASPICE-compliant MCAL driver packages, MICROSAR from Vector and KSAR OS from KPIT.
Automotive ISELED Ambient Lighting Using dsPIC33CK DSC
Automotive ISELED® Ambient Lighting Using Our dsPIC33CK DSCs
Learn how to implement automotive ambient lighting using Intelligent Smart Embedded LED, or ISELED®, technology and our dsPIC33CK family of Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs).
Embedded Security With dsPIC33C DSCs
Our dsPIC33C DSCs work together with CryptoAuthentication™ and CryptoAutomotive™ security ICs to implement robust system-level security.
These devices, when used with MPLAB® Code Configurator (MCC) and their ecosystem of development tools, simplify implementing immutable secure boot, secure firmware upgrade, node authentication, secure communication, secure provisioning and other use cases.
Data EEPROM Emulation on dsPIC33 DSCs Using MPLAB® Code Configurator
Learn how to configure and use the Data EEPROM Emulation (DEE) library using MPLAB® Code Configurator (MCC).
The program Flash available on dsPIC33C DSCs can be easily used to emulate EEPROM while the abstract wear-leveling complexities are handled by the DEE library in MCC.
dsPIC33 DSCs: Easy Migration in a Platform Design
This video will introduce you to the common development ecosystem that enables you to use the robust dsPIC33 DSCs in a complete platform design and demonstrates easy migration across device families.
Scalable dsPIC33C DSCs for Time-Critical Applications
Scalable dsPIC33C DSCs for Time-Critical Applications
This video introduces our latest dsPIC33C family of DSCs offering single-core and dual-core variants for time-critical control and high-performance embedded applications.