Microchip Introduces NEW Family of LCD Microcontrollers with Flash, EEPROM, and A/D!

Spehro Pefhany wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:59:13 +1200, the renowned Jim Granville
> <no.spam@designtools.co.nz> wrote:
> 
>>Ian Bell wrote:
>>> Bill Giovino wrote:
>>>>If you know of another microcontroller source that has Flash and has LCD
>>>>support, I'll be happy to change my article, Ian.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'll take you up on that.  How about Atmel's ATmega169, Fujitsu
>>> MB90425GA/B/C and TI's MSP430F449IPZ for starters.
>>
>>  Plus there are the MSP430 series :
>>TI show this FLASH/ROM LCD (MSP430x4xx FAMILY) (24)
>>of these, 22 are FLASH, and many come in 80 pins...
>>
>>  Then there is the TDK 71M6513
>>http://www.tdksemiconductor.com/products/product_detail.cfm?product_key=60
>>this was press released over a month ago
>>http://www.tdksemiconductor.com/news/pr_082604.cfm
>>
>>  So it seems "world's first" has so many qualifiers as to deserve
>>a marketdroid award!
>>
>>  "world's first" => only IF you also qualify Pincount AND SegmentCount
>>( AND may as well add from vendors starting with the letter 'M' and
>>with cores starting with the letter 'P'.
>>
>>  Of these LCD controllers, the one that seems to break the most new
>>ground, is the TDK one, which has high resolution ADCs.
>>  Second would be the 430FE series, with 'only' 16 bit ADCs, and
>>less RAM/FLASH/segments, so that puts the 'worlds first PICs' appx third
>>on an engineering scale.
>>
>>  -jg
> 
> Maybe *you* should publish a newsletter, Jim. ;-)

Nah, he's too busy being a real engineer like me ;-)

Ian



-- 
Ian Bell

"Bill Giovino" <editor@nospam-microcontroller.com> wrote in message
news:wYOdnRCThqK518fcRVn-qA@comcast.com...
> Microchip has introduced eight members of the NEW 8-bit PIC&#4294967295;
microcontroller
> family with an integrated Liquid-Crystal Display (LCD) module.  These LCD
> PIC microcontrollers include *********** 28-pin Flash LCD
> microcontrollers, and ******************* 80-pin Flash LCD
> microcontrollers, capable of driving 192 segments for touchscreen and
> segmented LCD displays. Microchip's LCD PIC microcontroller family
features
> both program Flash and data EEPROM memory, low power consumption and LCD
> control.
>
> You can read more about this new microcontroller family here:
> http://Microcontroller.com/News/Microchip_LCD.asp
>
>
> - Bill Giovino
>   Executive Editor
>   http://Microcontroller.com

Article corrected - "world's first" has been removed.
http://Microcontroller.com/News/Microchip_LCD.asp

Thanks to everyone that caught that,

-Bill.

Bill Giovino wrote:

> 
> "Bill Giovino" <editor@nospam-microcontroller.com> wrote in message
> news:wYOdnRCThqK518fcRVn-qA@comcast.com...
>> Microchip has introduced eight members of the NEW 8-bit PIC&#4294967295;
> microcontroller
>> family with an integrated Liquid-Crystal Display (LCD) module.  These LCD
>> PIC microcontrollers include *********** 28-pin Flash LCD
>> microcontrollers, and ******************* 80-pin Flash LCD
>> microcontrollers, capable of driving 192 segments for touchscreen and
>> segmented LCD displays. Microchip's LCD PIC microcontroller family
> features
>> both program Flash and data EEPROM memory, low power consumption and LCD
>> control.
>>
>> You can read more about this new microcontroller family here:
>> http://Microcontroller.com/News/Microchip_LCD.asp
>>
>>
>> - Bill Giovino
>>   Executive Editor
>>   http://Microcontroller.com
> 
> Article corrected - "world's first" has been removed.
> http://Microcontroller.com/News/Microchip_LCD.asp
> 
> Thanks to everyone that caught that,
> 
> -Bill.

Bill, you are a real gent.  You actually listen to feedback.  I have
bookmarked your site for future reference.

Ian

-- 
Ian Bell

> If you know of another microcontroller source that has Flash and has LCD
> support, I'll be happy to change my article, Ian.

You mean, like NEC's 78K0S series 8-bit micros?

"Ian Bell" <ruffrecords@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:cjghkj$v8o$1@slavica.ukpost.com...
> Bill Giovino wrote:
>
> >
> > "Bill Giovino" <editor@nospam-microcontroller.com> wrote in message
> > news:wYOdnRCThqK518fcRVn-qA@comcast.com...
> >> Microchip has introduced eight members of the NEW 8-bit PIC&#4294967295;
> > microcontroller
> >> family with an integrated Liquid-Crystal Display (LCD) module.  These
LCD
> >> PIC microcontrollers include *********** 28-pin Flash LCD
> >> microcontrollers, and ******************* 80-pin Flash LCD
> >> microcontrollers, capable of driving 192 segments for touchscreen and
> >> segmented LCD displays. Microchip's LCD PIC microcontroller family
> > features
> >> both program Flash and data EEPROM memory, low power consumption and
LCD
> >> control.
> >>
> >> You can read more about this new microcontroller family here:
> >> http://Microcontroller.com/News/Microchip_LCD.asp
> >>
> >>
> >> - Bill Giovino
> >>   Executive Editor
> >>   http://Microcontroller.com
> >
> > Article corrected - "world's first" has been removed.
> > http://Microcontroller.com/News/Microchip_LCD.asp
> >
> > Thanks to everyone that caught that,
> >
> > -Bill.
>
> Bill, you are a real gent.  You actually listen to feedback.  I have
> bookmarked your site for future reference.
>
> Ian Bell

Thanks, man. I really DO listen!

- Bill Giovino
  Executive Editor
  http://Microcontroller.com