{"id":10619,"date":"2015-07-22T13:31:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T17:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=10619"},"modified":"2015-07-22T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T22:06:00","slug":"microchip-launching-curiosity-development-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/microchip-launching-curiosity-development-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Microchip is launching &#8220;Curiosity&#8221; development board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microchip is launching a new development board called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microchip.com\/pagehandler\/en-us\/family\/8bit\/devboards\/curiosity.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Curiosity<\/strong><\/a> for 8-bit PIC lovers. It supports 8-, 14-, 20-pin 8-bit PIC\u00ae\u00a0Microcontrollers with low voltage programming capability and has an integrated Programmer\/Debugger with USB Interface that is fully compatible with\u00a0Microchip&#8217;s MPLAB X development environment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10620\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/board_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10620\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10620\" alt=\"Curiosity development board from Microchip\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/board_large-580x299.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/board_large-580x299.jpg 580w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/board_large.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Curiosity development board from Microchip<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Your next embedded design idea has a new home. 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&#8217;s MPLAB X development environment, Curiosity includes an integrated programmer\/debugger, and requires no additional hardware to get started.<\/p>\n<p>Curiosity is the perfect platform to harness the power of modern 8-bit PIC\u00ae\u00a0Microcontrollers. Its layout and external connections offer unparalleled access to the Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs) available on many newer 8-bit PIC MCUs. These CIPs enable the user to integrate various system functions onto a single MCU, simplifying the design and keeping system power consumption and BOM cost low.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, check out <strong>Mike Szczys<\/strong>&#8216; (over Hackaday) reviews of this new PIC development board <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2015\/07\/22\/review-microchip-curiosity-is-a-gorgeous-new-8-bit-dev-board\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microchip is launching a new development board called Curiosity for 8-bit PIC lovers. It supports 8-, 14-, 20-pin 8-bit PIC\u00ae\u00a0Microcontrollers with low voltage programming capability and has an integrated Programmer\/Debugger with USB Interface that is fully compatible with\u00a0Microchip&#8217;s MPLAB X development environment. Your next embedded design idea has a new home. 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&#8217;s MPLAB X development environment, Curiosity includes an integrated programmer\/debugger, and requires no additional hardware to get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367,4],"tags":[270,24],"class_list":["post-10619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mcu-develeopment-tools","category-pic-projects","tag-microchip","tag-pic-development-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10624,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10619\/revisions\/10624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}