Mouser Electronics has begun supplying Microchip Technologies' PIC32CM PL10 microcontroller, which enables the transition to a 32-bit MCU while utilizing existing 8-bit MCU design assets. This product family targets industrial and smart device design environments where low-power control and peripheral integration are becoming critical.

Mouser Electronics announced on the 19th that it is supplying Microchip Technologies' Arm Cortex-M0+ based PIC32CM PL10 MCU. This product family targets industrial, smart building, consumer electronics, and sensor-based applications as its primary application areas.

The PIC32CM PL10 is designed to be pin-compatible with the 8-bit AVR Dx family of MCUs. This allows for the transition to a 32-bit MCU while maintaining existing AVR MCU-based hardware designs, thereby reducing the burden of board redesign.

The product family provides multi-voltage I/O (MVIO), configurable custom logic (CCL), event systems (EVSYS), and more. These features can be utilized to reduce the number of components and PCB space, and help to create smaller designs.

In addition, it integrates analog peripherals such as a peripheral touch controller (PTC), ADC, and analog comparator, and supports 5V operation. This enables it to meet the demands of industrial environments and sensor-based applications requiring noise immunity and robustness.

Mouser also supplies the EV10P22A Curiosity Nano evaluation kit, which can evaluate the PIC32CM PL10. This kit integrates a programmer and a debugger, and allows for GUI-based configuration of onboard peripherals through MPLAB tools for VS Code and MPLAB Harmony.

This supply is significant in that it expands the options for developers who have maintained 8-bit MCU-based designs to explore 32-bit performance and peripheral configurations while utilizing existing design assets.