Product Review

The chipKITTM uC32TM combines compatibility with the popular ArduinoTM open source hardware prototyping platform with the performance of the Microchip PIC32 microcontroller. The uC32 is the same form factor as the Arduino Uno board and is compatible with Arduino shields. It features a USB serial port interface for connection to the Arduino IDE and can be powered via USB or an external power supply. The uC32 board takes advantage of the powerful PIC32MX340F512H microcontroller. This microcontroller features a 32-bit MIPS processor core running at 80Mhz, 512K of flash program memory and 32K of SRAM data memory. The uC32 can be programmed using of a modified version of the Arduino IDE, available as a FREE download. In addition to operation within the Arduino development environment, the uC32 is fully compatible with the advanced Microchip MPLAB development environment and the PICKit3 in-system programmer/debugger. IDE download link: https://github.com/chipKIT32/chipKIT32-MAX/downloads