Multibug's PIC development team has over 10 years experience of PIC based circuit and firmware design. With a huge range of devices to choose from, the PIC can provide the perfect solution to innumerable hardware application requirements.
Drawing on our in-house circuit design, CAD, and prototyping capabilities, we are able to provide turnkey solutions to many control and interfacing applications.
Applications
Possible PIC applications are almost infinite, and include many control, configuration, monitoring, interfacing, encoding/decoding, and digital/analogue functions.
In particular, Multibug has developed solutions in the following application areas:- Serial communications PC serial interfacing PC USB interfacing Temperature monitoring PWM fan control (PC fan noise reduction) Audio codec frame pattern generator Keypad scanning Proximity detection InfraRed control Pulse dial to tone dial conversion RF synthesiser configuration Digital audio amplifier volume control Strain gauge applications Telephone interface controller Output to LCD modules LED hazard warning control Piezo sounder driver Serial to parallel conversion
Hardware Design Part Selection - The application requirement is analyzed and the most appropriate device chosen for the task, ensuring the best price/performance trade-off. A circuit design is developed around the selected part, and a prototype test board made for firmware development purposes.
Firmware Development Firmware for the PIC is developed in Assembly Language for the most efficient program memory usage and speed. We are now able to provide field firmware upgrade capability through the use of a boot-loader (in PIC families which support software writing to flash program memory) either by RS-232 or USB connection to a PC. More... Aftersales Firmware support can be provided for future enhancements etc.
Serial communications
