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Microchip Technology is an IC manufacturer, best known for its extensive range of PIC microcontrollers, but also memory and analog function ICs. The term "microchip" is a legacy term for integrated circuits, not just ones designed by Microchip Technologies. The company came into existence and took the name after the term became common parlance.

Microchip Technology is an IC manufacturer, best known for its extensive range of , but also memory and analog function ICs. The term "microchip" is a legacy term for integrated circuits, not just ones designed by Microchip Technologies. The company came into existence and took the name after the term became common parlance.

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What is the meaning of Microchip's acronym TRIS for data direction registers?

When reading/writing/talking about electronics, I like to understand the acronyms and mneumonics for abbreviations used for registers, functions, filenames, pin names, etc. Usually, the first time the abbreviation is used, either the context or a…
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Why do some microchips have a mirror-like surface?

I have a few development boards I was working on and I noticed that a few of the microchips have a completely mirror-like surface on top of the chip. The chips tend to be very small, just a few millimeters wide and deep. What is on the surface of…
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dsPIC33 and Programmers

This is mostly a Microchip centric question. I'm very new to Microchip world. So any info beyond my questions is most certainly helpful to me... I purchased one of these demo/break-out boards from…
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LTC4041: Reduce inductor audiable noise

I'm using the LTC4041 as a UPS for Raspberry Pi. When a power failure is detected, the RPi shuts down immediately (a python script is running!). When the RPi is turned off, the current consumption drops from ~1.5A to several milliamps. This is in…
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Help Identifying Chip, How to read from it

Hello, This is the chip on the Roku Remote RC280J, and I can't find any data sheets or information about it at all. As well, I am not even sure how to read any of the data from the chip as well. If anyone would be able to educate me any farther…
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Beginner: What is a microchip really?

I've looked around on the web a bit but it's the same jumbled up garbage. I'm convinced most of the articles are by people who've only heard what a microchip is but who don't actually know. My assumption is that a microchip is like that thing…
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I need the part name or description of below U12 i the PCB

I need the part name or description the U12 in the PCB highlighted.
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printf for Pic32MX170F256B

I'm using harmony for my project and I'm not able to print via the printf function. I'm using UART1 and i have been reading that the standard print channel is UART2. Can someone help me how to redirect to my UART1 channel. Using the U1TXREG then…
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PWM signals not generating in PIC project

I have bread boarded the following proteus proffessional project: The idea is that the rotary switch controls the speed of the 2 DC fans, the high option results in 100% duty cycle, Med 75%, and Low is 50%. The tutorial I followed to configure the…
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MCP23017 - detecting state of IOCON.BANK bit after MCU reset

Datasheet for reference here. The port registers of the MCP23017 I2C I/O expander can be configured in two ways using the IOCON.BANK bit as follows: If BANK = 0, the A/B registers are paired. For example, IODIRA is mapped to address 00h and …
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is it true that a computer will slow down after it is used for a long time?

Intel claims that a computer will become slower after it is used for a long time while the power consumption remains almost the same according to some media source. At first I thought this was just marketing, but then some friend confirmed this is…
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How was the first programmable microchip made

Microchips have to be programmed to function. But if programmers (computers) are needed to program it, and they use microchips, how was the first one made?
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voltage level shift inside controller for some communication

I am working on dspic controller and which is operating at 5 V. how can I check in datasheet about does it will provide me 3.3V for some operations or not?
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How to read data from micro chip

I have a circuit that works in a machine. It has a microchip that has a number on it. 30281F6. I have to know How program inside the chip actually works, which steps it follow and what is the algorithm. Unfortunately as mentioned before I have not…
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