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Many organizations today are looking to add newer and feature-rich interfaces to their products, providing their customers with additional information in an aesthetically pleasing manner. This allows their end products to deliver more value to customers through product differentiation, regional customization and local language translations.

If your design requires human interface capability, consider Microchip Technology. We have developed numerous innovations in touch sensing, graphics displays and audio and speech that can enhance the user interface functionality of your product. These advancements are complete, turnkey solutions and many have license free and royalty free options to get your design to market faster at a lower total system cost.

Microchip’s PIC® microcontrollers feature on-chip peripherals to suit a variety of traditional user interface functions: high drive I/Os to drive LEDs, wake-up on change and internal pull down/up resistors for push buttons, A/D converters and comparators for variable resistors and A/D converters for keyboard matrix implementations.

 

Capacitive Touch Sensing Solution

Microchip’s mTouch™ Sensing Solution provides a free and easy method for designers to add capacitive touch sensing to applications utilizing PIC microcontrollers without the cost of fee-based licensing and royalty agreements. Being a source-code solution further helps engineers quickly integrate touch sensing functionality with their existing application code in a single, standard microcontroller, thus reducing the total system cost associated with current solutions.

 

Featured Tool for Capacitive Touch Sense

PICDEM™ Touch Sense 1 Development Kit (DM164125)
It demonstrates touch sensing technology using keys and slides and the 8-bit PIC16F microcontroller with S/R latch module; PICkit™ Serial Analyzer included.

 

NEW!!!! PICDEM™ Touch Sense 2 Development Kit (DM164128):
It demonstrates touch sensing technology using the 16-bit PIC24F family with Charge Time Measurement Unit (CTMU).

 

Display Solutions: Segmented LCD and QVGA Graphics

Microchip offers a broad range of 8-, 16- and 32-bit microcontrollers and 16-bit digital signal controllers that enable display applications. Many families feature on-chip LCD peripherals. A number of devices offer peripherals such as parallel master support and direct memory access.

With Microchip’s free QVGA Graphics Library (including source code) and related development tools, you can quickly integrate graphics display functions into your application in a single microcontroller, thus reducing development risk, total system cost and time to market. The library includes all source code, schematics, drivers, documentation and utilities needed to complete your design quickly.

 

 

Featured Tools for Segmented LCD and QVGA Graphics

Graphics PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board (AC164127)
It provides a cost effective method of evaluating and developing QVGA graphics display applications in conjunction with either development board. Available options:

Option 1: 16-/32-bit Explorer 16 Development Board (DM240001) and 32-bit Plug-in Module (MA320001/2)
Option 2: PIC32 I/O Expansion Board (DM320002) and PIC32 Starter Boards (DM320001/DM320003)

 

Technical Resources for Human Interface Design

Visit Microchip’s Human Interface Center for all current application notes, free software download, development tool support and complete product information at www.microchip.com/humaninterface.

 

PICDEM Touch Sense 1 Development Kit #DM164125

The PICDEM™ Touch Sense 1 Development Board and Diagnostic Tool provides a platform to introduce users to Microchip’s Capacitive mTouch™ Sensing Solutions. This board is a completely sealed application example using three different touch sensor configurations in the form of a Directional pad, Keypad and Slider section. A factory programmed firmware application provides the user immediate access to all of the board’s features through the use of the accompanying Windows® based Diagnostic Tool and PICkit Serial Analyzer. The Diagnostic Tool provides the user a platform to analyze application critical information in “real-time” as it relates to touch sensor behavior.

 

 

FEATURES Populated with PIC16F677 and PIC16F887 MCUs Directional pad, keypad and slider sensor configuration sections ICSP™ programming capability PICkit™ Serial Analyzer connectivity

KIT CONTENTS The PICDEM™ Touch Sense 1Development Board PICkit™ Serial Analyzer mTouch™ Sensing Solutions CD-ROM mTouch™ user’s guide Project Source Code mTouch™ Diagnostic Tool Software MPLAB® IDE software

 

PICDEM Touch Sense 2 Demonstration Board #DM164128

The PICDEM Touch Sense 2 Demonstration Board provides a complete platform introducing Microchip’s mTouch Sensing Solutions employing the 16-bit PIC24F MCU. It features the Charge Time Measurement Unit (CTMU) for fast capacitive touch sensing without additional external components.

Factory programmed firmware provides immediate access to all the board’s features through the use of the accompanying Windows™ based diagnostic tool. The diagnostic tool provides a platform to analyze application critical information in “real time” as it relates to touch sensor behavior.

 

 

FEATURES Populated with PIC24F256GB110 MCU Directional pad, keypad and slider sensor ICSP programming capability

KIT CONTENTS The PicDem Touch Sense 2 Demonstration Board USB cable mTouch Sensing Solutions CD-ROM, with user’s guide, reference manuals, source code, MPLAB IDE and mTouch diagnostic tool software

 

Graphics PICtail Plus Daughter Board #AC164127

The Graphics PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board 2 is a demonstration board for evaluating Microchip Technology's graphic LCD display solution and Graphics Library for 16-bit microcontrollers. It is an expansion board compatible with the Explorer 16 Development Board (DM240001).

 

FEATURES 2.8” QVGA (320 x 240) LCD module with resistive touch screen 65K color support Supports portrait and landscape orientations Stand-alone graphics controller, Solomon Systech SSD1906, supporting 4/8-bit STN, 4/8-bit CSTN, 18-bit HR-TFT and 9/12/18-bit TFT interfaces via connector 4 Megabit (512K x 8) Flash memory for graphic data storage Sound buzzer Horizontal PICtail™ Plus Daughter Board connection interface

 

Explorer 16 Development Board #DM240001

The Explorer 16 is a low cost, efficient development board to evaluate the features and performance of Microchip's new PIC24 Microcontroller, the dsPIC33 Digital Signal Controller (DSC) families, and the new 32-bit PIC32MX devices. Coupled with the MPLAB ICD 2 In Circuit Debugger or MPLAB REAL ICE, real-time emulation and debug facilities speed evaluation and prototyping of application circuitry. The Explorer 16 100-pin features two interchangeable Plug-In Modules (PIMs), one each for the PIC24FJ128GA010 and the dsPIC33FJ256GP710 DSC. The Explorer 16 44-pin features a Plug-In Module (PIM) for the PIC24FJ64GA004.

 

FEATURES Includes PIC24FJ128GA010 and the dsPIC33FJ256GP710 DSC Digital Signal Controller PIMs (100-pin version) or the PIC24FJ64GA004 PIM (44-pin version) Alpha-numeric 16 x 2 LCD display Interfaces to MPLAB ICD 2, MPLAB REAL ICE, USB, and RS-232 Includes Microchip's TC1047A high accuracy, analog output temperature sensor Expansion connector to access full devices pin-out and bread board prototyping area PICTail™ Plus connector for expansion boards Full documentation CD includes user's guide, schematics and PWB layout

 

PIC32MX 100P QFP to 100P Plug-In Module #MA320001

This Plug-in Module enables PIC32 development on the Explorer 16 development board (DM240001 or DM240002) and supports the MPLAB Real ICE Trace kit (AC244006). An 80MHz PIC32MX360F512L with 512kB of Flash, 32kB of RAM, 4 channels of hardware DMA and instruction trace are installed on the plug-in module.

 

PIC32MX USB Plug-In Module #MA320002

This Plug-in Module enables USB development using a PIC32, Explorer 16 development board. It requires USB PICtail+ (AC164131) for connecting USB hardware. An 80MHz PIC32MX460F512L with 512 KB of Flash, 32 KB of RAM, USB On-The-Go controller, 4 channels of hardware DMA and instruction trace are installed on the plug-in module. This module supports the MPLAB REAL ICE Trace Kit (AC244006).

 

PIC32 I/O Expansion Board #DM320002

The PIC32 I/O Expansion Board provides starter board (DM320001, DM320003) users with full access to MCU signals, JTAG debugging, ICSP development, and connection of PICtail Plus daughter cards. MCU signals are connected to vertical pin headers for attaching prototype circuits or monitoring signals with logic probes. Users may connect an optional 9V power supply (AC162039).

 

PIC32 Starter Kit #DM320001

The PIC32 Starter Kit provides the easiest and lowest cost method to experience the PIC32 microcontroller for the first time. From the over 35 source code examples to the getting started project, users quickly learn Microchip's 32-bit family of microcontrollers and development tools. The kit includes everything needed to write, program, debug, and execute code on a high performance PIC32 microcontroller.

 

PIC32 USB Starter Board #DM320003

The PIC32 USB Starter Board enables users to develop USB embedded host, device and OTG applications on the high performance PIC32 microcontroller family. The board contains an on-board programmer/debugger, standard A USB and micro A/B connectors, and an expansion header compatible with the PIC32 Starter Kit and expansion boards. Host PC requires Windows XP operating system.

 

 Featured Products

Part Number		Description	Data Sheet	App. Notes
AC164127		Graphics PICtail Plus Daughter Board
DM164125		PICDEM Touch Sense 1 Development Kit
DM164128		PICDEM Touch Sense 2 Demonstration Board
DM240001		Explorer 16 Development Board
DM320001		PIC32 Starter Kit
DM320002		PIC32 I/O Expansion Board
DM320003		PIC32 USB Starter Board
MA320001		PIC32MX 100P QFP to 100P Plug-In Module
MA320002		PIC32MX USB Plug-In Module

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