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Texas Instruments Consultants Programme
Microchip Consultants Programme
 

Much of our design work has required us to use PICS and embedded control systems.   We have extensive compiler and emulation hardware, this includes: Arizona Microchip (PIC), Texas Instruments (DSP), Analogue Devices DSP's (21XX), Hitachi (SH7032). "In system programmable" parts both in digital arrays (lattice PDS ISP 10xx devices) and also in PIC devices are used, both of which reduce production costs and accelerate development times.  Our wide range of designs have included the smallest 8 pin micro, MCU, embedded controllers, serial EEPROMS (E2PROMS), right up to multi-processor management systems.

We are part of the consultants' programme for Arizona Microchip and fully support the PIC range of microcontrollers, which offer compatibility over a large performance range and are very inexpensive. 

Case study

In this application (shown below) a PIC 16c65 is used as an embedded controller to manage all the display, keyboard and power functions of this precision monitoring instrument whilst still drawing only a tiny amount of power (allowing many hours of use from a single PP3 size battery). All this functionality and 32 bit floating point arithmetic fits comfortably within the 4K code space of the PIC micro.

Please contact us to discuss your specific requirement