Microchip Technology has announced the shipment of its 400 000th development tool. Few semiconductor companies can match Microchip in the total number of tools installed in the field.
"The shipment of our 400 000th development tool is proof of Microchip's leadership in this market. It reflects our commitment to going beyond simply offering silicon to providing engineers with a 'whole product solution' comprised of sophisticated development tools, field application engineer support and comprehensive technical documentation," said Derek Carlson, director of Development Tools at Microchip.
Microchip provides easy-to-use tools, allowing engineers to design with Microchip's 8-bit and 16-bit PIC microcontrollers, 16-bit dsPIC digital signal controllers, analog and interface devices, and EEPROM memory products. Because the silicon and tools have been produced by the same source, design burdens caused by technical problems resulting from tool and silicon incompatibility are eliminated and the technical support offered is maximised. The company's demonstration tools, in particular, allow design engineers the opportunity to have hands-on examples of the emerging technologies with which they will be working. As a result, design cycles and time to market are shortened through the ability to rapidly evaluate and learn a particular technology.
Microchip has a large portfolio of easy-to-learn development tools for its families of embedded-control solutions. The free, integrated toolset of the MPLAB Integrated Development Environment includes a programmer's text editor, software simulator, assembler, Visual Device Initialiser and other useful application plug-ins. This IDE has a user-friendly graphical user interface and supports in-circuit debuggers, emulators, and programmers from simple 6-pin 8-bit PIC microcontrollers to high-end 16-bit devices.
"Microchip stands alone among semiconductor companies by offering a no-cost, truly integrated development environment for 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers and 16-bit digital signal controllers, all the way from 6-pin to over 100-pin devices," said Carlson.
Other tools include the MPLAB PM3 universal device programmer, the PICSTART low-cost development system, the MPLAB C Compilers, and the PICDEM Demonstration Board series.
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