Win an MPLAB Xpress evaluation board

7 September 2016 News

Dataweek is giving readers the chance to win one of three MPLAB Xpress evaluation boards from Microchip. The new board (DM164140) features an integrated programmer, a PIC16F18855 MCU (microcontroller) and a mikroBUS header for system expansion with MikroElektronika’s 180+ Click boards. The PIC16F18855 is a general-purpose, 8-bit MCU that sports one of the largest selections of core independent peripherals to date.

The evaluation board can be used with Microchip’s new MPLAB Xpress cloud-based IDE. MPLAB Xpress offers an easy way to get started with PIC microcontrollers, with zero downloads, sign-in or setup needed to start designing. This free cloud-based IDE brings the most popular features of the MPLAB X IDE to Internet-connected PCs, laptops or tablets.

MPLAB Xpress’s comprehensive feature set includes a library of Microchip-validated code examples, interface to MPLAB Code Configurator (MCC) 3.0 for GUI-based microcontroller peripheral setup and automatic code generation, integrated MPLAB XC compilers, support for programmer/debugger hardware, and 10 GB of secure online storage with a myMicrochip account. Users can easily migrate their projects to the full, downloadable MPLAB X IDE. Additionally, the MPLAB Xpress Community enables developers to share their code, design ideas and knowledge.

The MPLAB Xpress evaluation board connects to a host computer (PC, Mac or Linux) as a USB mass storage device and allows the user to simply drag and drop an application executable (.hex) file to program the target.

For the chance to win one of these boards, go to www.microchip-comps.com/data-sept16

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