Market size of new, non-legacy, 5V ICs ?

On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 1:05:00 AM UTC+12, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
> Thanks.
> That's a nice trend which I hope continues. Is there any similar move on
> the peripheral side of things ?

> The thing which finally forced me to start moving to 3.3V was trying to
> interface to one too many sensors/LCD displays/SPI devices which were 3.3V
> only and are not 5V tolerant.
> 
> One of those SPI devices was Microchip's SPI RAM range, so that's why this
> new 5V capable series was such a surprise.

and another uC family, gets a shiny new 5V capable variant :

[" Microchip Expands PIC24 Lite Microcontroller Portfolio with Advanced Analog Integration and 5V Operation "]

-jg

On 2013-03-28, j.m.granville@gmail.com <j.m.granville@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 1:05:00 AM UTC+12, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> That's a nice trend which I hope continues. Is there any similar move on
>> the peripheral side of things ?
>
>> The thing which finally forced me to start moving to 3.3V was trying to
>> interface to one too many sensors/LCD displays/SPI devices which were 3.3V
>> only and are not 5V tolerant.
>> 
>> One of those SPI devices was Microchip's SPI RAM range, so that's why this
>> new 5V capable series was such a surprise.
>
> and another uC family, gets a shiny new 5V capable variant :
>
> [" Microchip Expands PIC24 Lite Microcontroller Portfolio with Advanced Analog Integration and 5V Operation "]
>

And I see they are even available in PDIP as well.

You know, my comment about the PIC32 at 5V was meant to be a joke, but
right now... :-)

Simon.

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