MCU with Dual ADC Peripheral

Last week, we discussed about Coilcraft's Chip Inductors, now we'll discuss about various tech advances. First up, Microchip's MCU that features a dual ADC peripheral. Microchip's engineers are looking for ways to make their designs more efficient but of lower-cost.


PIC16LF1554 and PIC16LF1559 combine both low power and dual ADC with hardware support for advanced touch-sensing and general-purpose sensor applications. Both MCUs have either 14 or 20 pins that combine up to 17 ADC channels with automated hardware CVD modules to implement capacitive sensing and other front-end sampling applications with minimal software overhead. These MCUs are eXtreme Low Power (XLP) compliant with active and sleep current of 35 µA/MHz and 30 nA, respectively, for applications where energy conservation is paramount.

This unique ADC configuration enables more efficient sensor acquisition and assists with advanced touch-sensing techniques. It is used for extremely noise environments, low-power applications, matrix keypads and water-resistant designs.

High-Performance RISC CPU:

• Only 49 Instruction to Learn
• Operating Speed:
• DC - 32 MHz clock input
• DC - 125 ns instruction cycle
•  Interrupt Capability with Automatic Context Saving
• 16-Level Deep Hardware Stack with Optional Overflow/Underflow Reset
• Direct, Indirect and Relative Addressing modes:
• Two full 16-bit File Select Registers (FSRs)
• FSRs can read program and data memory

To learn more about Microchip PIC16LF1554/9, click on the link below:
8-Bit PIC MCU with Dual ADC Peripheral