Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, providing low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to market for thousands of diverse customer applications worldwide. The Company offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality. - Microchip's 8- and 16-bit PIC microcontrollers (MCUs) combine high performance, low cost and small package size to offer the best price/performance ratio in the industry. The new PIC32 family of 32-bit MCUs is a natural extension to Microchip's portfolio of more than 550 PIC microcontroller and dsPIC® digital signal controller (DSC) products. Customers can use Microchip's single MPLAB® Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to design applications using all of Microchip's 8-, 16-, and 32-bit microcontroller and DSC products.

Microchip offers a full range of microcontroller and DSC development systems, including: the free MPLAB® Integrated Development Environment, which works with all of Microchip’s MCU and DSC devices from 6 to 100 pins and 8 to 32 bits; MPLAB REAL ICE™ In-Circuit Emulator; MPLAB PM3 universal device programmer; PICSTART™ low-cost development system; HI-TECH C® and MPLAB C Compilers; the MPLAB ICD 3 In-Circuit Debugger; the PICDEM™ Demonstration Board series; and the PICkit™ and MPLAB Starter Kit series. The Company also enjoys broad third-party tools support, and has a suite of tools for development with its analog and memory products. To date, Microchip has shipped more than 769,000 development systems worldwide. For more information, visit the Microchip website at www.microchip.com