Industry-Leading, Low-Power Wi-Fi® MCUs With Advanced Security
Designed to thrive in extreme environments, this MCU family provides industrial-level features, robust Wi-Fi connectivity and advanced security. It features a high-performance microcontroller (MCU) with:
- Industry-leading, low-power Wi-Fi connectivity
- A rich set of peripherals to add features to your application
We make it easy to get started by providing fully certified modules, a simple development environment and turnkey software examples featuring AWS and Azure cloud connectivity.
- High-performance, MIPS32® M-Class MCU with a highly integrated single-band 2.4 GHz IEEE® 802.11 b/g/n wireless radio
- Up to 2 MB flash and 640 KB RAM
- Up to 60 GPIOs supporting advanced analog peripherals such as touch inputs, CAN and Ethernet
- Support for WPA/WPA2/WPA3 Personal, TLS and SSL security protocols
- Trust&GO advanced security that is pre-provisioned for AWS and Azure cloud environments
- Class B Safety Library to streamline the functional safety certification process
- Globally pre-certified modules that shorten time to market by eliminating RF design and reducing regulatory requirements
- Application examples and turnkey software solutions including Ethernet bridging, AWS Free RTOS and secure cloud connections
Why Design With the PIC32MZ-W1 and WFI32 Family?
Robust Performance
Our PIC32MZ-W1 and WFI32 family is built to thrive in tough environments. These devices are temperature tolerant and provide stable RF performance regardless of the conditions.
Advanced Peripherals
With up to 60 GPIOs, it is easy to add features that set your application apart. This MCU family supports advanced analog peripherals including capacitive touch, CAN, Ethernet and USB.
Layered Security
We keep your designs secure through multiple layers of protection including Trust&GO, which simplifies secure cloud authentication.
Product Selection
In addition to SoCs, we design and build our own RF-ready modules. If you want more customization, we provide chip-down reference design packages for building your own module.
Simple Prototyping
Use drag-and-drop auto code generation, virtual sniffers and a large library of application examples to prototype your wireless application in seconds.
Easily Implement Secure Authentication
Our Trust&GO Wi-Fi MCU modules include a built-in hardware security element that streamlines the process of creating secure network connections and requires no additional hardware. These modules come with pre-configured and pre-provisioned elements that enable secure authentication in four easy steps.
Getting Started
We Have All the Tools Needed to Jumpstart Your Project
Our comprehensive selection of tools and accessible support makes Wi-Fi product development easy. Our resources include:
- Modules, SoCs and other devices
- Development boards
- Detailed documentation
- Demo applications
- Design check service
- Technical support
- Hardware
- Software
- Code Examples
- Additional Resources
Development Tools
Ethernet to Wi-Fi Bridge Board
- Pre-programmed with Ethernet-to-Wi-Fi bridging software
- 32 MB external SPI flash
WFI32 2.0 High Pin Count Curiosity Development Board
- System-level prototyping
- 60 GPIO
- 2 MB flash and 640 KB RAM
PIC32MZ-W1 and WFI32 2.0 Curiosity Development Board
- System-level prototyping
- 37 GPIO
- 2 MB flash and 640 KB RAM
WFI32-IoT 2.0 Development Board
- Battery-powered applications
- 37 GPIO
- 2 MB flash and 640 KB RAM
WFI32 High Pin Count Curiosity Development Board
- System-level prototyping
- 60 GPIO
- 1 MB flash and 320 KB RAM
PIC32MZ-W1 and WFI32 Curiosity Development Board
- System-level prototyping
- 37 GPIO
- 1 MB flash and 320 KB RAM
WFI32-IoT Development Board
- Battery-powered applications
- 37 GPIO
- 1 MB flash and 320 KB RAM
Development Environments
MPLAB® X Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
MPLAB X IDE provides a host of features to help you quickly debug your projects and minimize your development time while workng seamlessly with the other tools in the MPLAB ecosystem.
MPLAB® Harmony v3
This integrated software development framework for our SAM and PIC32 MCUs provides flexible and interoperable modules that simplify product development and reduce time to market.
MPLAB® Code Configurator (MCC)
MCC is a free graphical programming environment that generates seamless, easy-to-understand C code to insert into your project. It is available in the downloadable MPLAB X IDE and the cloud-based MPLAB Harmony v3.
Demos and Code Examples
Easy IoT Cloud Connectivity
Connect to any cloud— Azure, AWS or MQTT cloud—with ease using our PIC32MZ-W1 Curiosity or WFI32-IoT Boards.
Class B Safety Library
This robust family now includes a Class B Safety Library to streamline the functional safety certification process.
Industrial Bridging Solutions
Reliable performance and multiple communication protocols make the WFI32 modules excellent options for use Wi-Fi bridging applications.
And Many More
Explore our growing library of application examples, documentation and videos available through MPLAB® Discover.
Development Resources
MCHPRT3 Radio Test Tool
Use this Windows®-based software to test your RF configuration during development, certification and production.
Design Check Service
Our online design review is available at no charge to customers who have selected our wireless devices for their applications.
Microchip Bootloaders
Bootloaders are used to upgrade firmware on a target device without using an external programmer or debugger. Commonly used with microcontrollers (MCUs), a bootloader contains code that loads and executes an application program. Bootloaders can also perform additional tasks such as validating the code integrity and authenticity.
