Curiosity Products: Curiosity is a
cost-effective, fully integrated 8-bit development platform targeted at first-time
users, Makers, and those seeking a feature-rich rapid prototyping board. Designed
from the ground-up to take full advantage of Microchip's MPLAB®
X development environment, Curiosity includes an integrated programmer/debugger and
requires no additional hardware.
Xplained Products: Xplained evaluation kits are a
series of easy-to-use evaluation kits for Microchip microcontrollers and other
Microchip products.
Xplained Nano: Used for low
pin count devices and provides a minimalistic solution with access to all
I/O pins of the target microcontroller.
Xplained Mini: Used for
medium pin count devices and adds an Arduino Uno compatible header footprint
and a prototyping area.
Xplained Pro: Used for medium
to high pin count devices that feature advanced debugging and standardized
extensions for peripheral functions.
Note: All of the above kits have
on-board programmers/debuggers, which creates a set of low-cost boards for
evaluation and demonstration of features and capabilities of different Microchip
products.
Software/ IDE:
MPLAB® X Integrated Development
Environment (IDE): MPLAB X IDE is a software program that runs on
a PC (Windows®, Mac OS®, Linux®) to develop applications for Microchip microcontrollers and digital
signal controllers. It is called an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) because
it provides a single integrated ‘environment’ to develop code for embedded
microcontrollers.
MPLAB® Code Configurator
(MCC): MPLAB MCC is a free, graphical programming environment that
generates seamless, easy-to-understand C code to be inserted into the project. Using
an intuitive interface, it enables and configures a rich set of peripherals and
functions specific to the application.
MPLAB® Harmony v3: MPLAB
Harmony v3 is a fully integrated embedded software development framework that
provides flexible and interoperable software modules that allow for the dedication
of resources to create applications for the 32-bit PIC® and SAM
devices, rather than dealing with device details, complex protocols, and library
integration challenges. It works seamlessly with MPLAB X IDE and the MPLAB® XC32 Compiler to enable a smooth transition and maximum
code reuse between PIC32 MCUs and SAM MCUs and MPUs. It also has drivers, demo code
and Data Visualizer that supports data streaming and advanced debugging.
Atmel Start: Atmel START is an
online tool that helps the user to select and configure software components and
tailor embedded application in a usable and optimized manner.
Atmel Studio: Free IDE for the development of
C/C++ and assembler code for microcontrollers.
Data Visualizer: Data Visualizer is
a program used for processing and visualizing data. The Data Visualizer can receive
data from various sources, such as the EDBG Data Gateway Interface found on
Curiosity Nano and Xplained Pro boards and COM Ports.
Design Documentation: Package
containing CAD source, schematics, BOM, assembly drawings, 3D plots, layer plots and
more.