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In This Issue...
1. Microchip Introduces mTouchTM

Projected Capacitive Touch -Screen Sensing Technology, Development Kit and 8- bit MCU

2. Synchronous Boost Regulators

From Microchip Enable Less Than 0.7V Operation with Any PIC Microcontroller

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3. Tuning Guides E ase Motor

Microchip Introduces mTouch Projected Capacitive Touch-Screen Sensing Technology, Development Kit and 8-bit MCU
Technology & Kit Provide Flexible, Royalty-Free Solution with GUI-based Tools; Projected-Cap 8-bit Microcontroller (MCU) Available for Just $0.99 Each In Volume
During SID Display Week in Seattle, Microchip announced the availability of mTouch Projected Capacitive Touch-Screen Sensing Technology, the first in a series of patent-pending releases supporting projected capacitive touch-screen solutions across Microchips portfolio of 8-, 16- and 32-bit PIC MCUs. Microchip also announced the mTouch Projected Capacitive Development Kit, as well as the PIC16F707 8-bit microcontroller, featuring two 16-channel Capacitive Sensing Modules (CSMs) that can run in parallel for increased sampling speed. The MCU is available for just $0.99 each in volume and, along with the mTouch projected-capacitive technology and development kit, enables designers to easily integrate projected capacitive touch-sensing functionality into their application with a single MCU, thus reducing total system costs and increasing design flexibility. Touch sensing continues to gain traction as an alternative to traditional push-button user interfaces, because it enables a more flexible, intuitive interface with a modern-looking design. mTouch projected capacitive touch-screen technology enables customers to quickly develop and implement robust glass-front user interfaces that simplify user interaction via features such as gestures. Typical applications include global positioning systems, thermostats, mobile handheld units and other devices that use smaller displays with a finger input. The technology is available via a royalty-free source code license from Microchips online Touch Sensing Design Center. The mTouch Projected Capacitive Development Kit (part #DM160211, $119.99) includes a 3.5 sensor mounted on a sensor board, a projected-capacitive board with the PIC16F707 MCU and fully functional firmware. The kit enables users to connect sensors to up to 24 channels, without modifying the firmware. The open source code supports sensors with up to 32 channels, and the kit includes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) tool that enables customers to easily adjust key parameters that are important to their design. In addition to two CSMs, the low-power PIC16F707 8-bit MCU has a wide operating voltage range of 1.8 5.5V, with a typical projectedcapacitive sensor application operating current of approximately 1.5 mA at 5V. A 40-pin, 5 mm x 5 mm micro QFN (QFN) package option is expected to be available in Calendar Q3 2010. The MCU is available now, in 44-pin, 8 mm x 8 mm QFN and TQFP packages, for $0.99 each in volume. Samples of the MCU in the QFN and TQFP packages can be ordered today. Volume-production quantities of the MCU in these package options can be purchased today.
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Synchronous Boost Regulators From Microchip Enable Less Than 0.7V Operation with Any PIC Microcontroller
Microchip's MCP1623 and MCP1624 (MCP1623/4) Synchronous Boost Regulators bring low-voltage support to any PIC Microcontroller (MCU), providing a customizable solution for single-cell battery applications. Featuring a start-up voltage of 0.65V and an operating voltage down to 0.35V, the MCP1623/4 regulators reduce the number of batteries needed in a typical design even enabling designs to be powered from a single Alkaline, NiMh, NiCd, or disposable Lithium battery cell. The MCP1623/4 Synchronous Boost Regulators extend battery life with up to 96% typical efficiency, shutdown current of less than one micro Ampere in all states and a true load-disconnect shutdown. The devices have an operating input voltage of 0.35 to 5.5V and an adjustable output voltage range of 2.0 to 5.5V. In reducing the number of batteries required, the MCP1623/4 regulators enable more environmentally friendly designs, with lower shipping and operating costs. The devices include over-temperature protection and provide 500 kHz PWM operation, enabling the use of smaller coils, with the MCP1624 providing automatic PWM/PFM switching. The MCP1623/4 Synchronous Boost Regulators are available in a 6-pin, SOT23 package, for less than $0.20 each, in volume. Samples are available today, at www.microchip.com/FREE. Volume-production-quantity orders can be placed today.

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Tuning Guides Ease Motor Control Design

Engineers face a series of daunting tasks when they want to architect a new machine. From a highly abstracted viewpoint, this might be something like: The user pushes a button, the motor turns a mechanism a certain amount and the machine dispenses something out the front. Plop! Digging down one layer into the details of what is needed to make this happen, we can visualize that there needs to be a lot of different systems working together to make this machine work. Selecting an appropriate motor and getting it running right is just a small part of the overall job. However to an engineer new to motor control, it can seem like the most daunting task. Microchip recently released 5 new Motor Control tuning guides that make this task easier! These guides walk the user though a step-by-step process showing them how to modify the software parameters in the motor control algorithms to arrive at an optimized solution for their particular motor and task. These procedures can be downloaded from Microchips web site along with the base application notes: AN1160 Tuning Procedure for Sensorless BEMF with Majority Detect BLDC AN1078 Tuning Procedure for Sensorless Dual-Shunt with SMO Estimator PMSM AN1292 Tuning Procedure for Sensorless Dual-Shunt with PLL Estimator PMSM AN1299 Tuning Procedure for Sensorless Single-Shunt PMSM with SMO Estimator AN1307 Tuning Procedure for Stepper Motor Control

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myPIC32.com Redesigned for You!

Recently, myPIC32.com has been re-launched as a site for our community of designers to share their ideas with the world. Project containers allow for uploading software, block diagrams, Bills of Materials, schematics, prototype photos, and videos. An active community of designers discuss their ideas and projects, and help each other with hardware and software development. If youre interested in seeing what PIC32 can do, and what creative minds have made happen, visit www.myPIC32.com today!

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product development company based in southern California. Our product design and development process is an interdisciplinary approach combining industrial design, mechanical engineering, and prototyping that ensures product designs are successfully executed into production.

One day last year, Microchips Field Sales Engineer Alan Riley, called Le Bui, the head of business development at Long Beach, California-based Nectar Design, with a suggestion. He wanted Microchip and Nectar to embark on a cooperative marketing effort. Like several other firms Microchip works with, Nectar provides leading edge product development as well as engineering and design services for products that frequently incorporate Microchips devices. It made sense to both Riley and Bui that getting together with firms with different specializations, but in the same basic field, could lead to the creation of fresh concepts that would generate new business for everyone involved. Two events were held, casual and upbeat affairs where guests were encouraged to bring both their children and a relaxed attitude. Since each of the design partner companies came from a different specialty, there was a great deal of exciting discussion between designers and engineers from highly varied industries and disciplines. When you get that many technology specialists in a room, ideas are going to be in the air. Though it didnt happen overnight, the events really did lead to workable design estimates for exciting new products involving Nectar and calling for Microchips components. These included an emergency lighting system used in conjunction with fire alarms, enabling people in buildings threatened by fire to exit safely and quickly. Nectar also provided aesthetic and mechanical housing for a consumer medical electronic device using light, sound, and vibration cues to remind users of the correct time to take their prescriptions.

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There was more. Nectar worked with another client to create a decorative lighting display for use in restaurants, bars, discos, and private parties in which lights seem to dance to musical rhythms. Finally, Nectar collaborated with one of Microchips design partner, Tom Reimer, on The Solar Flora. Its a more aesthetically pleasing and fun variation on ordinary solar panels, a tree-shaped sculpture appropriate for backyard gardens. Ironically, the more cyber-socialized we become via Facebook, Twitter, and all the rest, the more professionals in all fields are energized by events in the real world. The more companies move toward outsourcing their product development needs to achieve greater technological sophistication, the more old-fashioned human contact can grease the wheels that forge truly successful, win-win partnerships between firms. RETURN TO FRONT PAGE

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Feature Your Cool Demo Software on the PIC18 Starter Kit

Share your creative ideas on how to showcase the USB, touch sensing, accelerometer and OLED display on the new PIC18 Starter Kit. USB Touch Sensing Low Power SD Memory Card Accelerometer OLED Display
Get Your Code Featured: 1) Use the PIC18 Starter Kit from Microchip to develop cool new demos. 2) Submit your code by June 30th, 2010 to PIC18starter@microchip.com. Include your name, company name and a short description of the demo. 3) Several winners will be chosen. Their demo code will be included on the SD card that ships with the next version of the PIC18 Starter Kit and will be available for download on the www.microchip.com/PIC18starter website! Your name and company name can be included.

About the PIC18 Starter Kit:

Functions as a USB mouse, joystick or mass storage device all using the on-board capacitive touch sense pads Includes a MicroSD memory card, potentiometer, acceleration sensor and OLED display On-board debugger and programming Completely USB-powered Demonstrates PIC18 Family: - PIC18F46J50 8-bit MCU - 64 KB Flash and 4 KB RAM - nanoWatt XLP for extreme low power - mTouch capacitive touch sensing - USB communication Microchips FREE downloadable USB bootloader and software framework available at: www.microchip.com/USB

Submission Restrictions: 1) Code runs without modifications to board. 2) Code should be loadable using the SD card bootloader. 3) Demo cannot destroy, delete or format the existing SD card data. It can read, write and erase files that the demo itself creates but should not touch the other files. 4) Code must be functional and deemed relevant and appropriate to be featured on the PIC18 Starter Kit. All winners will be notified by August 15th, 2010.
For additional terms and conditions, visit: www.microchip.com/PIC18starter
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Interact with Microchip atMCHP Tube

Microchips Academic Program team has launched a YouTube-based show called MCHP Tube. MCHP Tube is an online video newscast for all things Microchip with a focus on Academia. Here youll find the latest information on new products, technologies and software/hardware development tools from both Microchip and Third-party sources. It will be a monthly show targeting academics worldwide and will be divided into four sections as follows: Headliners we will discuss new academic-friendly development resources brought to you by Microchip and our authorized Design Partners. University Student Project students can submit a video featuring a student project based on Microchip products. Ask Microchip viewers can ask a question and a qualified Microchip support person will answer it. Where in the World is Marc McComb? Marc is Microchips academic sales engineer and in each edition will talk about new products and tools that are a good fit for academics. To submit a video on a student project or ask a question for the Ask Microchip section, email us at mchptube@microchip.com. You can also visit www.microchip.com/mchptube for more information on the show.

MCHP Tube provides the opportunity for Students, Teachers and Professors to interact with Microchip directly!!
Click on the image above to view the 2nd episode of MCHP Tube. To view Microchips YouTube channel, click HERE.
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Visit Microchip at Booth 205 to experience exciting demos, win prizes, and much more! During ESC Chicago, Microchip has 17 LIVE in-booth demos and is giving away six MPLAB ICD 3 In-Circuit Debugger systems. While youre there, check out our latest product offerings from our nanoWatt XLP eXtreme Low Power technology to our mTouch Sensing Solutions to our analog and interface devices and our serial EEPROMs ... weve got something for everyone! Booth Giveaways to All Attendees (while supplies last): Energizer Batteries AA, AAA Lithium, and AAAA Alkaline Retractable In-Ear Headphones Mini Screwdrivers 20% off Development Tool Discount Coupons Regional Training Center FREE Class Coupons Microchip will have technical staff on hand to answer your design questions and demonstrate our latest technologies. 17 LIVE In-Booth Demos: 1) nanoWatt XLP eXtreme Low Power MCUs 2) 8-bit PIC Microcontrollers with NEW Enhanced Architecture 3) 16-bit PIC Microcontrollers 4) 32-bit PIC Microcontrollers 5) Scalable USB Solutions 6) mTouch Touch Sensing Solutions & Projected Capacitive Touch-Screen Sensing Technology 7) dsPIC DSC Digital Power Solutions 8) Internet Solutions using TCP/IP Protocol 9) dsPIC DSC Motor Control Solutions 10) Development Kits for iPod and iPhone Accessories 11) RF, ZigBee and MiWi Wireless Solutions 12) Graphics & Segmented Display Solutions 13) Reference Implementation for Google PowerMeter 14) Memory Solutions 15) Energizer Featured Demos & eXtreme Low Power 16-bit and 8-bit Development Boards 16) Federal Signals NEW Lightbar 17) CUETM Radio Model r1 Register online, today at: http://esc-chicago.techinsightsevents.com/in-booth_activites

Microchip Sponsored Product Teardown Session CUETM Radio Model r1

Tuesday, June 8, 2010 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM ESC Theatre Prize Drawing! Enter to Win a CUE Radio during the teardown session.
Radios with iPod docking stations are popping up everywhere. The Cue Radio Model r1 delivers full-bodied sound with impressive dynamic range. Using a four-channel amplifier architecture, each of the channels is capable of 25W RMS. The radio contains a Microchip PIC18F87J11 microcontroller. To see just how this box was designed and a chance to win one, check out this LIVE Product Teardown Session.

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 10:20 - 11:00 am, Room: 40 Microchip Technologys Jason Tollefson, Product Marketing Manager presents...

Low-Power Sensor Design

Learn how to design extremely low-power sensors. This session introduces a microcontroller evaluation platform that enables sleep currents as low as 20 nA. Use these devices to easily evaluate the harvesting and wireless options available using microcontrollers that extract power from the environment and offer low levels of power consumption. Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 10:10 - 10:50 am, Room: 47 Microchip Technologys Youbok Lee, Technical Staff Engineer and Jayanth Murthy, Applications Engineer presents...

Microcontroller Processing Power & Peripheral Requirements for MEMS Motion-Sensor Applications
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Join us for Microchips 14th annual Technical Training Conference for Embedded Control Engineers. Find solutions to your embedded control challenges and benefit from in-depth training on Microchips products. Interface with Microchips Field Applications Engineers and technical experts as well as attendees from many other companies. Discounts Available (some restrictions apply) Academia SAVE 30% off main pricing if you are a Professor in the Microchip Academia Program Design Partner SAVE a minimum of 20% off main pricing if you are in the Microchip Design Partner Program and are non-commissioned Arizona Resident SAVE 25% off main pricing & Pre-Conference if you dont need a hotel room Groups SAVE 25% off main pricing on 11 or more attendees or 20% on 6-10 attendees from the same company Whats included in the Conference Fee? Overnight Accommodations for three nights Round trip airport transportation between Phoenix Sky Harbor airport and the JW Marriot Desert Ridge Resort Conference Meals Conference Classes Discounted Development Tools USB Flash Drive with all class materials Internet access in our Cyber Caf High-speed internet access in room And many other extras MASTERs 2010 Conference: August 25th - 28th US $1495.00, Includes overnight accommodations for three nights Pre-Conference: August 23rd - 24th US $1145.00, Includes overnight accommodations for three nights
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Looking to Enhance Your Embedded Control Designs?

instruction manuals and data sheet review or trial and error attempts to learn individually. Market forces constantly press companies to add functionality and features to their products often outside their areas of core competence. As a result, engineers must continually broaden their knowledge base. Microchips technology classes are intended to help engineers gain an understanding of a new field. In tough economic times, companies often look for ways to trim expenses as a means to cope with a downturn in sales. One of the areas often targeted for cutbacks is employee training. There is not only the direct cost of the training to contend with, but also travel expenses and time an employee spends away from the job. During this challenging business climate, however, competitive pressures and technology changes dont stop and it is training that can help a company be better positioned to take advantage of the potential upswing. Microchip, with its global network of Regional Training Centers (RTCs) and third-party training partners, is here to help companies stay competitive with cost-effective, local training. To help companies deal with issues of travel expense and time, classes are given not only in Microchips facilities, but are also taken on the road. Customized customer premise sessions can be scheduled offering the most convenience. Time away can be managed more efficiently with the flexibility of half or full day class sessions. To be effective in teaching, instruction must take into account the needs and expertise level of the attendee. Microchips Regional Training Center classes are developed to provide a coordinated flow, enabling engineers to implement a solution to their product development needs. Instruction is developed and presented in product, technology and implementation classes that are grouped into application based curriculum. Each curriculum flow enables the individual to engage with the training at a level that meets his or her current knowledge and needs. The intent is to provide training that is relevant to each attendee while eliminating the frustration often associated with attending classes that present too much known information or assume a level of knowledge beyond what the attendee currently possesses. Product/tool classes provide knowledge on how Microchips products and development tools operate. This knowledge provides the foundation upon which all application instruction is based. Attendance at one of these classes can provide significant value through the reduction in time associated with Implementation classes combine elements of product and technology instruction to teach engineers how to design a real world application. Classes at this level provide how-to instruction rather than what or why instruction. Microchip is currently offering classes in the following curriculum: DSP , Ethernet, Human Interface, Motor Control, Power Management, Signal Chain, System Design and USB. Future curriculum is expected to include CAN/LIN, IrDA, Lighting and RF. With a worldwide network of Regional Training Centers and certified third-party trainers, Microchip makes it easy to enhance your technical skills, with locations in nearly every metropolitan area across the world! For those organizations who desire to have a number of employees attend a course at the same time, Microchip can customize any curriculum to meet your specific needs. Our instructors arrive at your location with all presentation materials and equipment, making it easy for your whole team to benefit from a specific course topic in one setting. In addition to the instruction, most Regional Training Center classes offer the opportunity to purchase a set of the development tools used in the class at a discounted price. If the class you are interested in is not scheduled in your area, you can sign up to receive an alert when a session is scheduled. For information on scheduling custom in-house training, contact your local RTC directly or visit the Microchip RTC web site: www.microchip.com/RTC

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Whats New in Microchip Literature?

Doc. Type
Application Note

Visit our Technical Documentation page at www.microchip.com to view the documents. DS No.
00236B 01182B 01293B 01316A 22123B 22249A 22250A 41190G 41417A 41418A 61143G 70632A 80382H 80435G 80437C 80497A 70631A 41398B 61145F 51806B 51898A 39710B 70183C 70216C 22236A

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AN236, X-10 Home Automation Using the PIC16F877A AN1182, Fonts in the Microchip Graphics Library AN1293, Multiple Chemistry Battery Charger Solution using MCP1631HV PIC Device Attached PWM Controller AN1316, Using Digital Potentiometers for Programmable Amplifier Gain

Data Sheet

25AA02E48 Data Sheet MCP4802/4812/4822 Data Sheet MCP4902/4912/4922 Data Sheet PIC12F629/675 Data Sheet PIC16F/LF722A/723A Data Sheet PIC16F707/PIC16LF707 Data Sheet PIC32MX3XX/4XX Data Sheet MRF24WB0MA/MRF24WB0MB WiFi Transceiver Data Sheet

Errata

PIC16F72X/LF72X Errata PIC18F46J11 Family Silicon/Data Sheet Errata PIC18F1XK22/LF Errata PIC16F/LF1946/1947 Errata

White Paper Programming Specification

Features, Value and Benefits of Digital Control for Power Supplies PIC18F25K22 Programming Specification PIC32MX Flash Programming Specification

Users Guide

PIC18F4XJ5X Full-Speed USB Demonstration Board User's Guide MCP42XXEV Evaluation Board User's Guide

FRM Chapter

PIC24F Family Reference Manual, Sect. 19 Dual Comparator Module dsPIC33F/24H FRM Section 16. ADC dsPIC33F FRM/PIC24H - Section 39. Oscillator (Part III)

Product Brief

MCP1754/MCP1754S Product Brief

The Microchip name and logo, the Microchip logo, dsPIC, KeeLoq, KeeLoq logo, MPLAB, PIC, PICmicro, PICSTART, rfPIC and UNI/O are registered trademarks of Microchip Technology Incorporated in the U.S.A. and other countries. FilterLab, Hampshire, HI-TECH C, Linear Active Thermistor, MXDEV, MXLAB, SEEVAL and The Embedded Control Solutions Company are registered trademarks of Microchip Technology Incorporated in the U.S.A. Analog-for-the-Digital Age, Application Maestro, CodeGuard, dsPICDEM, dsPICDEM.net, dsPICworks, dsSPEAK, ECAN, ECONOMONITOR, FanSense, HI-TIDE, In-Circuit Serial Programming, ICSP , Mindi, MiWi, MPASM, MPLAB Certified logo, MPLIB, MPLINK, mTouch, Octopus, Omniscient Code Generation, PICC, PICC-18, PICDEM, PICDEM.net, PICkit, PICtail, PIC32 logo, REAL ICE, rfLAB, Select Mode, Total Endurance, TSHARC, UniWinDriver, WiperLock and ZENA are trademarks of Microchip Technology Incorporated in the U.S.A. and other countries. SQTP is a service mark of Microchip Technology Incorporated in the U.S.A. All other trademarks mentioned herein are property of their respective companies. 2010, Microchip Technology Incorporated, Printed in the U.S.A., All Rights Reserved.

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Customers can now register and maintain a list of all their development tools from their microchipDIRECT account, including High Priority Access support maintenance contracts!

Online Development Tools Product Registration NOW Available on microchipDIRECT...

Automatic Product Registrations
From now on, development tools purchased from microchipDIRECT will be automatically registered to your microchipDIRECT account. When logged into your account, you can find a list of your registered products by using the following links on the screens below.

Registered Products
The first section of the page allows you to see the status of your registered products and warranties. If you purchased a development tool through a distributor, you can also add your product to this page.

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The second section of the page lists the status of all current High Priority Access (HPA) maintenance and support contracts, and also provides timely reminders when the contract is due for renewal. When purchasing HPA contracts for your compiler, you will need to enter your compiler license for which you purchased the HPA in order to activate it.

Activation of your support and maintenance contract will take between 1-2 business day to process. You will then be able to download and activate any new versions of your compiler, and also receive priority technical support.

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