Microchip Enables Cloud Connectivity with WiFi, Bluetooth, and NB 5G Technologies

A solution has been developed for developers who are struggling due to the increasing complexity and costs of recent IoT market projects.
Microchip Technology has unveiled cloud-agnostic, turnkey, and full-stack embedded development solutions that include designs for cores, connectivity, security, development environments, debugging, and more.

Microchip, a provider of smart, connected, and secure systems, helps lower project costs and reduce development complexity through this solution.

Developers can leverage this to connect to key cores and the cloud, ranging from ultra-small PICs and AVR microcontrollers (MCUs) for sensor and actuator devices to 32-bit MCUs and MPU gateway solutions for edge computing, using WiFi, Bluetooth, and NB (narrowband) 5G technologies, as well as maintain strong security based on Trost platform support for the CryptoAuthentication family.

The newly unveiled solutions include: ▲PIC IoT WA and AVR IoT WA boards ▲Gateway solution running AWS IoT Greengrass ▲SAM IoT WG ▲Azure IoT SAM MCU based on the IoT development platform ▲PIThere are a total of six types, including C BLE and AVR BLE boards and LTE M/NB IoT development kits.

Code generators such as MCC (MPLAB X Code Configurator) automate and provide application code generation and customization for ultra-small PIC and AVR microcontrollers, and the Harmony software library supports all 32-bit MCU and MPU solutions.

The PKOB Nano includes on-board and in-circuit programming and debugging capabilities, and allows for power, debugging, and communication using only a USB cable.

In addition, while larger solutions are supported by the general-purpose programmer and debugger, MPLAB PICkit 4 and MPLAB ICD 4, the ATSAMA5D27 WLSOM 1 provides a free Linux distribution.

Sam George, Vice President of Microsoft Azure IoT Business, said, "We are pleased that an IoT development platform based on the Azure IoT SAM MCU has been developed for the Microchip IoT solution portfolio," adding, "Users can seamlessly connect IoT devices to the Microsoft Azure cloud based on the Azure IoT services and the Microchip MPLAB X development tool ecosystem."

Meanwhile, these solutions were designed with embedded security in mind, focusing on ease of use and rapid development for smart industrial, medical, consumer goods, agriculture, and retail applications.