Microchip Shares Some Wi-Fi Wealth with 20 New IoT Parts, Including the PIC32MZ-W1 Family
New parts include a 200MHz 32-bit microcontroller, link and network controllers with boosted performance, and UART Wi-Fi modules.
Microchip has announced the release of no fewer than 20 Wi-Fi parts targeting industrial and Internet of Things (IoT) applications — including the new PIC32MZ-W1 microcontroller family, which comes with expanded analog capabilities, and UART-controlled RNWF02 modules for simplified cloud connectivity.
"For decades Microchip has been a respected MCU [Microcontroller Unit] provider, and we've leveraged that background, along with our comprehensive support ecosystem, to build a portfolio of Wi-Fi products and services that is unmatched in the industry today," boasts Microchip's Rishi Vasuki. "Our experience allows us to provide developers with wireless solutions designed to support advanced applications such as precision sensing and motor control operating under harsh conditions."
The company's latest launches number no fewer than 20 Wi-Fi enabled parts, ranging from link controllers and plug-and-play modules to the Microchip PIC32MZ-W1 — a family of 32-bit microcontrollers that pair Wi-Fi connectivity and high-count general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pins with more expansive analog support than their predecessors, including capacitive touch and an integrated analog to digital converter, along with CAN bus and Ethernet connectivity.
The microcontrollers are built around the 32-bit MIPS microAptiv M-class core running at up to 200MHz, feature 640kB of RAM split between 512kB of data memory and a 128kB Wi-Fi buffer, 2MB of embedded flash, a cryptographic engine with AES and triple-DES acceleration, a 12-channel 12-bit analog to digital converter supporting 11 touch inputs and two mega-samples per second (2Msps) data acquisition, USB 2.0 Full Speed, three UART, two SPI, two I2S, one I2C, and one SQI buses, one each of CAN and CAN-FD buses, and up to 60 GPIO pins.
Other products announced by the company include its WINCS02 network controller and WILCS02 link controller parts, which are claimed to offer improved radio performance and additional security features while being pin-to-pin compatible with their predecessors, and RNWF02 plug-and-play Wi-Fi modules — designed to bring cloud connectivity to disconnected microcontrollers with a simple UART bus control interface.
More information on Microsoft's latest launches is available on the company website.
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