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Using a Hardware Module to Interface
Description: The 25XXX series serial EEPROMs from Microchip Technology support a half-duplex protocol that functions on a master-slave paradigm that is ideally suited to data stream applications. The bus is ...
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Emulating Data EEPROM for PIC18 and PIC24 MCUs and dsPIC DSCs
Description: Many applications store nonvolatile information in the Flash program memory using table write and read operations. Applications that need to frequently update this data may have greater endurance ...
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Using External Memory with PIC24F/24H/dsPIC33F Devices
Description: This application note describes the methodology to use the Parallel Master Port (PMP) module to interface with external data memory; either external Flash or external RAM. This application note also ...
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External Memory Interfacing Techniques for the PIC18F8XXX
Description: The PIC18FXXXX family offers the largest range of on-chip enhanced FLASH program memory and the richest selection of peripherals in the current line of Microchip microcontrollers. The PIC18F8XXX ...
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FLASH Memory Technology: Considerations for Application Design
Description: Many times, choosing a FLASH memory device is driven by which manufacturer has the cheapest offering. Regardless of its use as a stand-alone device or as the program memory of a microcontroller, what ...
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Paralleling the TC1121 to Reduce Output Resistance for Driving Higher Load Currents (TC1121)
Description: Microchip Technology's TC1121 is a charge pump voltage converter specified to have a 100mA output current capability. The TC1121 has the benefits of selecting different internal charge pump switching ...
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RFID Tag and COB Development Guide with Microchip's RFID Devices
Description: A passive RFID tag contains an RFID integrated circuit (IC), resonant capacitor (C), and antenna (L), as shown in Figure 1. The antenna and capacitor form a parallel LC resonant circuit. The LC ...
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A Guide to SPI FRAM Devices
Description: The SPI family of FRAM products offers the market serial high speed, low power, nonvolatile FRAM memory. SPI FRAM memory devices take advantage of FRAM's fast write performance that provides writing ...
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Data Retention Performance of 0.5µm FRAM Products
Description: This document supports the change in the data retention specification from 10 years to 45 years at 85 degrees C. The approved change is based on an activation energy of 1.5 eV and cumulative Quality ...
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Ferroelectric Technology Brief
Description: Established semiconductor memory technologies are divided into two categories: 1. RAMs are Random Access Memories, which simply means that the access time for reads and writes are symmetric. 2. ...
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The Endurance Performance of 0.5µm FRAM Products
Description: Ferroelectric random access memories (FRAMs) are nonvolatile memory devices that store data by using the bi-stable switchable polarization state of a ferroelectric material. Ferroelectric thin films ...