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Bipolar PICmicro® Power Systems

From Microchip Technology, Inc.

This technical brief describes how a PICmicro microcontroller can be made to run with bipolar power. The PICmicro microcontroller can even generate its own negative power supply with no software overhead by using a simple-charge pump circuit.
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