Microchip's online design center helps low-cost instrument design

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Microchip Technology Inc. (Microchip Technology) recently launched a new online Utility Meter Design Center (www.microchip.com/meters). This rich website provides technical tools and resources for engineers who need to create accurate, reliable and low-cost utility meters, including power, water, gas and heating meters.

"Microchip believes that there is a lot of room for growth in the global electronic metering application market. Our new Utility Meter Design Center will help our engineering customers simplify the metering design process and shorten the design cycle," said Bryan Liddiard, Microchip's vice president of marketing. In addition, Microchip also provides the industry with a wide range of products, including dedicated devices for metering applications and innovative solutions covering power measurement, display, communication and low power and billing."

Microchip's Utility Meter Design Center provides users with detailed design flow charts and lists all the necessary steps and considerations in the utility metering design process. The website also provides a "Metering Cookbook" to guide engineers on how to upgrade mechanical meter designs to electronic designs, which will be of great help to electronic design beginners. The design center also provides all of Microchip's metering application articles, reference designs and other technical documents to help engineers improve efficiency and speed up product launch.

Microchip also simultaneously launched the MCP3905 and MCP3906, independent energy measurement integrated circuits that can output average or instantaneous real-time power and are fully functional. The front end of these energy measurement devices, combined with PIC? microcontrollers, can provide a comprehensive and high-precision solution suitable for single-phase energy measurement in residential meters and industrial applications.

In addition, Microchip's 8-bit microcontrollers PIC18F8490 and PIC16F917 can provide high-performance and cost-effective solutions for metering applications. Both products have flash program memory, low power consumption, integrated LCD display control and other functions, and the package type can be selected.

Since Microchip established its first Chinese sales office in Shanghai in 1996, it has been committed to the development of the Chinese microcontroller market. With the large-scale transformation of China's urban and rural power grids in 2003, the electric energy metering instrument industry is booming. Microchip has followed the trend of China's public energy charging system reform and spared no effort to launch the most cost-effective products to meet the design needs of engineers and help the development and application of China's electric meter measurement products.