Microchip Technology has established itself as a leading supplier of field-programmable embedded control solutions, with high performance microcontrollers from the PIC12CXXX, PIC16CXX and PIC17CXX families. The PICmicro™ microcontrollers combine high performance, low cost and small package size, offering the best price/performance ratio in the industry. All PICmicro families offer one-time-programmable, low-voltage and low-power options; selected members of the families are available in ROM and reprogrammable versions. Family members are supplied with a wide range of peripherals, including timers, ADCs and serial communications functions. Microchip also manufacture PICmicro development systems, non-volatile memory devices, security and smartcard components and mask programmable gate arrays.

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All PICmicro families feature: * OTP - Quick time to market - Microchip has the most affordable OTP microcontrollers. * Size - Smallest microcontrollers packages on the market. * Low power - One of the lowest power 8 bit microcontroller families on the market (<5OuW operating, typical @32kHz, 3V, <6uW standby @3V). * Performance - fast 8 bit microcontroller architecture, with single cycle, 200ns instructions. * Efficiency single word instructions make compact code possible.

UK distributors for all Microchip Technology products are: * Arrow-Jermyn * Electronic Services * Eurodis-HB * Future * Solid State Supplies.