MA240014 Microchip Technology, MA240014 Datasheet - Page 2

• Manufacturer Part Number: MA240014
• Description: MODULE PLUG-IN PIC24
• Manufacturer: Microchip Technology
• Series: PIC®r

Specifications of MA240014

• Accessory Type: Plug-In Module (PIM) - PIC24FJ256GB110
• Product: Microcontroller Modules
• Data Bus Width: 16 bit
• Core Processor: PIC24FJ256GB110
• Operating Supply Voltage: 3 V to 3.6 V
• Development Tools By Supplier: Integrated Development Environment, Assembler, ANSI C Compiler
• Processor Series: PIC24F
• Silicon Manufacturer: Microchip
• Core Architecture: PIC
• Core Sub-architecture: PIC24
• Silicon Core Number: PIC24F
• Silicon Family Name: PIC24FJxxGBxxx
• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Lead free / RoHS Compliant
• For Use With/related Products: Explorer 16 (DM240001 or DM240002)
• For Use With: DM240001 - BOARD DEMO PIC24/DSPIC33/PIC32
• Lead Free Status / Rohs Status: Lead free / RoHS Compliant

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What is a Digital Signal Controller?
Powerful 16-bit MCU:
The dsPIC30F and dsPIC33F families
of digital signal controllers execute
most instructions in 1 cycle. Combine
high instruction throughput with true
DSP capabilities, such as single cycle
16-bit multiply and zero overhead
looping, and you have the most powerful
16-bit MCU for your embedded control
designs.
Looking to Add DSP?
If you are one of the many MCU users
looking to add DSP features to your
system, chances are you don’t like your
choices. Adding a DSP chip to your
existing MCU-based system can be
costly and complicated. The dsPIC30F
and the dsPIC33F are designed to
look and feel like MCUs. Adding DSP
functionality in the familiar controller-
like environment can be accomplished
with ease.
A Digital Signal Controller (DSC) is a single-chip, embedded controller that
seamlessly integrates the control attributes of a Microcontroller (MCU) with
the computation and throughput capabilities of a Digital Signal Processor (DSP)
in a single core.
Microchip’s dsPIC®DSC offers everything you would expect from a powerful
16-bit MCU: fast, sophisticated and flexible interrupt handling; a wide array of
digital and analog peripheral functions; power management; flexible clocking
options; power-on-reset; brown-out protection; watchdog timer; code security;
full-speed real-time emulation; and full-speed in-circuit debug solutions.
By skillfully adding DSP capability to a high-performance 16-bit MCU,
Microchip’s dsPIC30F and dsPIC33F families of DSCs achieve the best of
both worlds and mark the beginning of a new era in embedded control.
The Capability You Need
Flexible Flash:
The dsPIC30F and dsPIC33F both
employ flexible and secure Flash
memory. You can use the dsPIC
DSC Flash to store programs or data
tables. Additionally, all dsPIC DSCs
can securely self-program their own
flash in a finished product. If you need
extraordinary retention or endurance,
we have that too.
DSP for the DSP Expert!
A seasoned DSP developer will be
amazed at the capabilities this family
of digital signal controllers offers
— everything you expect from a DSP
of its class: dual 40-bit accumulators,
single-cycle 16 x 16 MAC, 40-bit
barrel shifter, dual operand fetches,
saturation and rounding modes and DO
and REPEAT loops. Then we added a
few items usually missing from DSPs:
flexible interrupts, large register sets,
a watchdog timer, clock fail detect and
real-time emulation to name a few.
dsPIC33F
Optimized C Compiler:
The architecture of these digital signal
controllers was co-developed by our
MPLAB® C30 C Compiler team. The
result is a high C code efficiency when
compared to any 16-bit MCU or DSP .
C code benchmarks show that competitive
16-bit MCUs require up to double the
amount of program code space for the
same application program written in C.
Considering a 32-bit MCU?
Considering a 32-bit controller because
your current MCU has run out of steam?
Microchip’s digital signal controllers
integrate the power of digital signal
processors and can outperform a 32-
bit controller in many applications. Our
outstanding C code efficiency for a 32-bit
data type reduces memory requirements
and cost.
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