Microchip unveils multimedia development systems

The Multimedia Expansion Board enables development of interactive, graphics-based interfaces with network connectivity.

The Mtouch capacitive touch evaluation kit introduces a board for implementing capacitive touch sensing with the PIC32.

The Multimedia Expansion Board demonstrates how to implement a flexible graphics display strategy that is not dependent on controller-based QVGA display modules.

It also includes a 24-bit stereo audio codec line out, headphone and microphone jacks, integrated FCC-certified Wi-Fi, an on-board three-axis accelerometer and a five-position joystick.

The enhanced Mtouch capacitive touch evaluation kit includes a board for development with the PIC32.

It comes equipped with capacitive touch-sensing keys and sliders, which allows designers to evaluate this interface in their applications using the Windows OS-based Mtouch Diagnostic Tool.

This software tool provides a graphical user interface for developing cap-touch buttons and sliders, and is included in the free MPLAB integrated development environment.

The additional software libraries, source code and other support materials that come with the board are designed to further shorten development cycles and reduce design costs.

When combined with its other included boards, the enhanced Mtouch capacitive touch evaluation kit allows designers to evaluate all of Microchip's 8-, 16- and 32-bit microcontrollers, providing a scalable capacitive touch-sensing development platform for a wide range of design needs.