Microchip Announces CAN Product Roadmap

		Microchip Announces Entry into CAN Marketplace

	Company:	Microchip
	Category:	Microcontroller Cores (new products)
	Date:	10-Nov-1998

	Chandler, AZ (microcontroller.com) - Microchip Technology announced it will launch a family of microcontrollers that will support the Controller Area Network (CAN) serial bus interface. The first CAN device introduced will be a stand-alone SPI CAN peripheral. This will enable any microcontroller with an SPI serial port to interface to a CAN bus via the CAN 2.0b (active) protocol. The first four microcontrollers in the new CAN roadmap will be based on Microchip's new PIC18Cxxx 8-bit microcontroller family (see related story). The PIC18Cxxx CAN 2.0b microcontroller family is directly targeted towards Automotive body electronics applications. Microchip is expected to aggressively expand their CAN PIC microcontroller roadmap. This will include CAN 2.0b microcontrollers in lower-pin count packages. Features p/ns: PIC18Cxxx CAN Family PIC18 8-bit RISC Core - Register-based architecture Flash, OTP, and ROM Program Memory Options Watchdog Timer 10-bit A/D Serial Interfaces: UARTs, I²C, SPI CAN 2.0b (active) 1999 64-pin and 84-pin Packages Pricing and Availability The PIC18Cxxx microcontrollers will be sampling first half 1999, with production quantites available the second half of 1999. Pricing will range from $6 to $10. For more information on these products, contact Microchip Technology. Code Compatibility The PIC18Cxxx will be upwardly code-compatible with Microchip's PIC12Cxxx, PIC16C5x, PIC16Cxxx, and PIC17Cxxx microcontroller families. Development Tools Microchip's PIC microcontroller families have excellant development tool support, with an extensive vendor list of In-circuit emulators and compilers. About Microchip Microchip Technology Inc. manufactures the PICmicro™ family of 8-bit RISC-based microcontrollers—with OTP, Flash, and ROM memory technologies; serial EEPROMs and related specialty memory products; and KEELOQ® code hopping devices. These products target thousands of embedded control applications in the consumer, automotive, office automation, communications and industrial markets. Microchip’s quality systems are ISO 9001 certified. Headquartered near Phoenix in Chandler, Ariz., Microchip employs approximately 2,200 people worldwide and has sales offices throughout Asia, Europe, Japan and the Americas.
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