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Real-Time Control with Precision and Performance
Embedded system developers seek a solution that delivers top-notch performance, precise real-time control and a versatile suite of development tools to enhance and streamline their development endeavors. Our dsPIC33A DSCs are meticulously crafted to cater to these demands and enable you to achieve the following key design objectives:
Enhanced Energy Efficiency for Sustained Performance
The real-time performance dsPIC33A DSCs enable implementing complex algorithms that enhance energy efficiency for optimal power utilization in your design for sustained performance
Cost Savings With High Peripheral Integration
To optimize costs and minimize board space, the dsPIC33A DSCs integrate an expansive array of advanced analog and digital peripherals
Efficient Execution of Multiple Functions
By enabling the execution of multiple functions in a single microcontroller (MCU) through low-latency responsiveness, accelerated mathematical operations and real-time control capabilities, the dsPIC33A DSCs provide a unified and high-integration platform operation and help tackle the increasing software complexity
Increased Focus on Safety and Security
dsPIC33A DSCs incorporate advanced hardware safety and security features and a comprehensive ecosystem to provide your target level of protection and reliability.
Similar Devices
- High Performance
- Functional Safety
- Embedded Security
High Performance
The dsPIC33A family of DSCs with low latency responsiveness is designed for high-performance and real-time precision control applications. These DSCs combine the advantages of MCUs with the signal processing capabilities of Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), making them suitable for a wide variety of applications that require quick control loop computations using multiple sensor inputs.
- High Performance: 32-bit CPU, 200 MHz operation with a DSP engine with 72-bit accumulators
- DP-FPU: Accelerated math operation and simplifying model-based design development with Double-Precision Floating Point Unit (DP-FPU)
- Enhanced Pipelining: Speculative instruction fetching and branch prediction reducing latency
- High-Speed Analog Peripherals: Up to 40 Msps, 12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs); 100 MHz Gain Bandwidth (GBW) op amps and 5 ns high-speed comparators with 1 Msps, 12-bit Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs) with slope compensation for precision sensing and signal conditioning
- Advanced Peripherals: Application-specific inter-coupled peripherals with many core-independent capabilities for motor control, digital power, advanced sensing and general high-performance applications
Curiosity Platform Development Board
Part Number: EV74H48A
This full-featured development and demonstration board enables you to explore the capabilities of the dsPIC33A DSC family. The board operation requires the insertion of a 120-pin general-purpose Dual In-Line Module (DIM) that includes a dsPIC33A DSC.
MCS MCLV-48V-300W Inverter Board
Part Number: EV18H47
This inverter board enables rapid prototyping of motor control designs using interchangeable DIMs. It is targeted to drive a 12V–48V low-voltage three-phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) or Brushless DC (BLDC) motor with up to 25A RMS continuous per phase at 25°C.
Digital Power Development Board
Part Number: DM330029
This board provides the user a flexible measurement platform for compatible Digital Power Plug-In Modules (DP PIMs) for our dsPIC33.
Partner Ecosystem
Lauterbach Tools
Lauterbach's TRACE32® tools provide market-leading debug features for our dsPIC33A Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), including real-time debugging, performance analysis and more. These features make it an essential tool for developing high-performance, reliable embedded systems in automotive and other applications.
SEGGER Tools
SEGGER provides robust software solutions and Flash programmers for dsPIC® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), ensuring efficient and reliable performance in embedded systems.
SEGGER offers the embOS-Classic RTOS for dsPIC33 DSCs and the Flasher family of Flash programmers to meet your production needs.
Simma Software
Simma Software provides robust LIN, CAN, Unified Diagnostic Services (UDS), SAE J1708, SAE J1939, Universal Measurement and Calibration Protocol (XCP), NMEA 2000, ISO 15765 protocol stacks and secure Flash bootloaders for our dsPIC33A DSCs. With 20+ years of experience working with our devices, Simma Software specializes in protocol stacks, custom software development and peripheral support for dsPIC33 DSCs.
IHR GmbH
IHR GmbH, an active member of the Automotive Networking Alliance, provides advanced embedded software solutions for our dsPIC33 DSCs, including CAN/LIN software stacks, UDS, OSEK/AUTOSAR® NM, Flash bootloader and ECU application functions. IHR GmbH's processes are in accordance with the ASPICE standard, and it provides conformance testing for CAN/LIN.
FreeRTOS™ Support for the dsPIC33A DSCs
dsPIC33A DSCs support FreeRTOS v10.5 to provide robust real-time operating system capabilities. Use the pre-configured demo applications and comprehensive documentation to quickly get started with your FreeRTOS-based application development and prototyping using the dsPIC33A Curiosity Platform Development Board.
Key Features
- Seamless integration with MPLAB® X IDE and MPLAB XC-DSC C compiler
- Real-time task management and scheduling
DSP Library Support for dsPIC33A DSCs
The DSP Library for dsPIC33A DSCs is a comprehensive suite of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) functions designed to facilitate the development of high-performance signal processing applications. By utilizing pre-built functions, you can substantially decrease your development time while improving the efficiency and precision of your signal processing tasks.
Key Features
- High-performance DSP capabilities optimized for real-time control
- Optimized for real-time responsiveness by taking advantage of the dsPIC33A architecture and DSP ISA support for mathematical and signal processing functions—IIR, FIR, FFT, Matrix, Vector and PID
Data EEPROM Emulation Library for dsPIC33A DSCs
The Data EEPROM Emulation (DEE) library offers a cost-effective alternative for storing nonvolatile information in the Flash program memory, which requires high endurance.
Key Features
- Enhanced endurance
- Improves endurance by up to 500 times compared to standard Flash memory
- Cost effective
- Eliminates the need for external EEPROM devices, which reduces cost and saves pin resources
- Easy integration
- Provides an interface like an internal data EEPROM to simplify implementation
MPLAB® Discover
MPLAB Discover is a catalog of fully configured and complete source code, projects, examples and software applications for the dsPIC DSCs to jump-start your next project.
MPLAB® Code Configurator
MPLAB Code Configurator (MCC) is a free graphical programming environment that generates seamless, easy-to-understand C code.
MPLAB® XC-DSC Compiler
The MPLAB XC-DSC Compiler is a comprehensive solution for your software development that integrates with MPLAB X IDE to provide a full graphical front end.
MPLAB® PowerSmart™ Development Suite
Accelerate the development of your Switched-Mode Power Supplies (SMPS) with MPLAB PowerSmart Development Suite, a user-friendly design ecosystem that eliminates the need to manually write the DSP-specific code for dsPIC33 DSCs.