5 Ways to Make Your Design Process Easier

Engineers are often curious about where’s the best place to start to simplify and speed your design process. Here we share how leveraging technology from Microchip can help you easily design smart solutions for numerous applications.

1. Start with development kits

Microchip Technology Engineering Development Tools

Variety of dev boards are available supporting different areas of application development:

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  • Communication board shown
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  • MCU board shown
  • Power management board shown
  • Wireless board shown
  • Sensors board shown

2. Evaluate functionality and capabilities with MIKROE Click boards

Microchip Technology Prototyping with Mikroe Click Boards™

Microchip MPLAB® Xpress Evaluation Board and Curiosity Boards feature mikroBUS™ sockets specifically for MIKROE Click Boards offering:

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  • Power management board shown
  • Display & LED board shown
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  • Interface board shown
  • Sensors board shown
  • Mixed Signal board shown

3. Leverage the MPLAB® ecosystem

Microchip Technology MPLAB® X Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Powerful software and tools to discover, configure, develop, debug & qualify embedded designs to minimize development time

  • MPLAB Code Configurator graphic – Get your code off to a head start
  • MPLAB Harmony – Graphically configures peripherals and libraries
  • MPLAB XC Complier – Optimizations for code size reduction and speed enhancements

4. Use code examples with MPLAB® Discover to fast-track development

Microchip Technology MPLAB® X Integrated Development Environment (IDE) https://mplab-discover.microchip.com/v1/itemtype/com.microchip.ide.project

Quickly look up and select from a range of code examples:

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  • Automotive Icon shown
  • Communications Icon shown
  • Motor Control Icon
  • IoT Icon shown
  • Security Icon shown
  • Power management Icon shown
  • Security (sensor nodes)

5. Innovative portfolio of MCUs to future-proof development and provide a migration path

Microchip Migration Infographic
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  • 32-bit chip shown

To complete your design, Microchip offers:

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