July 2012System Integration & Control Systems Design
Digilent’s chipKIT Max32 is based on the popular Arduino open source hardware prototyping platform, but adds the performance of the Microchip PIC32 microcontroller.
The Max32 is the same form factor as the Arduino Mega board and is compatible with most Arduino shields, as well as larger shields for use with the Mega boards. It features a USB serial port interface for connection to the IDE and can be powered via USB or an external power supply (7 to 15 V DC).
The Max32 board takes advantage of the powerful PIC32MX795F512 microcontroller. This features a 32-bit MIPS processor core running at 80 MHz, 512 K of Flash program memory and 128 K of SRAM data memory. In addition, the processor provides a USB 2, OTG controller, 10/100 Ethernet MAC, and dual CAN controllers that can be accessed via add-on I/O shields.
The Max32 can be programmed using an environment based on the original Arduino IDE, modified to support PIC32. In addition, the Max32 is fully compatible with the advanced Microchip MPLAB IDE and the PICKit3 in-system programmer/debugger.
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