Microchip Technology Inc. has announced the MPLAB Starter Kit for PIC24H MCUs, which includes everything needed to develop and evaluate human–machine interfaces (HMIs) and intelligent sensor processing for embedded designs.
The kit is based on the PIC24HJ128GP504 16-bit microcontroller (MCU), which features up to 40 MIPS performance, 128 KB of flash memory, 8 KB of RAM, and a full complement of integrated peripherals. For advanced HMIs, the kit includes an organic LED (OLED) array display supported by the free Microchip Graphics Library, low-cost audio and speech playback capability for user prompts, and user-input capabilities.
For intelligent sensor processing development, the starter kit board has a tri-axial analogue accelerometer interfaced to the PIC24H, along with example applications such as motion-sensitive gaming. The kit part number is DM240021.
The MPLAB starter kit for PIC24H MCUs allows developers to run the included accelerometer-based sample programs and check out the interaction of the accelerometer and the switches with the MCU on the visual display while listening to speech playback. Users can connect their own analogue sensors for signal processing and can download and test their own applications.
Additional key features of the MPLAB Starter Kit for PIC24H MCUs include an integrated debugger/programmer, USB-powered operation, G.711 compression for speech playback, separate analogue signal condition circuitry to support a wide range of sensors for signal processing, and CD with Microchip's MPLAB Integrated Development Environment, including a full editor, programmer and debugger, MPLAB C compiler, code examples, and a user's guide.
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