EDN

16-bit microcontrollers offer low pin count, high performance

Microchip announces two new high-performance (40MIPS), low pin count (18- and 28-pin) 16-bit product families – the PIC24HJ12GP family of microcontrollers and the dsPIC33FJ12GP family of Digital ...
EDN

16-bit MCU offers 40 MIPS performance in 18-pin, 6×6 mm package

Chandler, Ariz.—Microchip Technology Inc. announced the PIC24HJ12 family—the company's lowest-priced 40 MIPS 16-bit microcontroller, with prices starting at $1.99 each in 10,000-unit quantities.
Electronic Design

FRAM Delivers Unified Memory for 16-bit Microcontroller

Texas Instruments’ (TI) latest MSP430 microcontrollers utilize FRAM for code and data. The unified memory approach simplifies development since code space can be traded off for more data RAM. FRAM ...
Electronic Design

16-bit Microcontroller Packs 64 Kbytes of Flash in a 28-pin Packages

Microchip’s dsPIC and PIC24 line of 16-bit microcontrollers has become every popular even as some concentrate on 8- and 32-bit product lines. Well, there are plenty of applications where 16-bit ...