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Geoffg

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Posted: 02:38pm 06 Mar 2015

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During March Microchip are offering free freight on purchases from Microchip Direct. To claim this you need to use the coupon code FreeShipmD during checkout.

Generally Microchip are the cheapest source for their own products and as far as I can tell this applies to everything they sell. They ship via international courier so it is good value.

EDIT: Damn, I did not spot that Peter has beaten me to the announcement!!!

GeoffEdited by Geoffg 2015-03-08

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Lou

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Posted: 03:12pm 06 Mar 2015

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Thanks Geoff

Good info, I always order Microchip Direct... have not seen Peter's post yet.

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Posted: 02:01am 07 Mar 2015

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just browsing through the microchip site, there seem to be a load of device i've not spotted before. for example:
PIC32MX170F512L

an MX170 in a 100-pin package, 512k of flash, 4 SPI channels. these 100-pin MX170's seem, on the face of it, to be more capable than the MX470, though the core not as fast:
http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?product=PI C32MX170F512L

the datasheet is 60001290C.pdf

this would give an MX170 with the possibility of VGA output and SD card support. could be i've not just looked in the right places before, or are these new?

cheers,
rob :-)

addendum: but, of course, just realised that with only 64k of RAM, the video resolution will be limited...Edited by robert.rozee 2015-03-08

Geoffg

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Posted: 04:33pm 07 Mar 2015

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robert.rozee said just browsing through the microchip site, there seem to be a load of device i've not spotted before. for example PIC32MX170F512L

The new chips are coming thick and fast. It will be difficult to support them all so for the moment I am concentrating on getting Peter's port for the MX470 integrated with the extra features (USB & SD Card).

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Lou

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Posted: 05:19am 08 Mar 2015

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Geoff wrote:

I am concentrating on getting Peter's port for the MX470 integrated with the extra features (USB & SD Card).

Great news, thanks Geoff.

Lou

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Zonker

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Posted: 01:20pm 08 Mar 2015

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Wow..!

Awesome news... So, does this mean... Maybe using let's say the 1.8" or the 2.4" touch displays that we are prototyping with, and use their onboard SD card sockets as the MM SD card. The display command/data port is SPI, the touch controller is SPI and the SD card is SPI.... Nice...

So, Layout a 470 based MPU interface board that has the RTC, USB, and power supplies to make a quick, cheap ready to go module...

This should be doable...

(hope so)

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Posted: 10:22pm 08 Mar 2015

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"Shhh!! Be quiet!"

That is exactly what i am working on. Displays still not arrived yet so i am getting a bit impatient.

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