Likely to the consternation to many fans of either company, this merger does make sense, more so than ON or Dialog buying Atmel. They also make MCU’s based on the ARM core, a competitor to MIPS, and Atmel’s own AVR32. Atmel continues to make 8051 MCUs, but also makes the 8 and 32-bit AVR line, perhaps best known today for its use in Arduino boards. Today the PIC line continues to be popular, with devices for the low end, such as the PIC10/12 all the way to the MIPS based PIC24 on the upper end. Atmel also makes APRC processors, and for a time made Motorola products as well (Atmel has a very convoluted history, for more info on this read here and here ) In a bit of a twist of fate, when Atmel started, it was a fabless company, it contracted with several companies to make its EPROMs, including Sanyo, and General Instruments, which as mentioned above, became Microchip.
Atmel was started in 1984, first making EPROMs, and then MCS-51 microcontrollers, one of the very first companies to make an 8051 with on die flash memory. Microchip was spun off of General Instrument in 1987, but the PIC architecture dates back to 1976, and is still being made in nearly the same form (PIC16C55). Milandr does offer radiation resistant devices so its likely that some Milandr PIC has flown to space as well.Ītmel EPROM, fab’d by GI in 1986, right before they became Microchip The Microhard MHX-2400 radio system, designed for small satellites such as cubesats, runs on a PIC17C756A, a version flew on NASA’s Genesat-1 in 2006 carrying bacteria samples. The use of a PIC in high reliability applications isn’t something entirely new. Production of these PICs continues at Milandr (the pictured example is from 2012), as customers still use the parts, mainly in industrial and other places where reliability is key. It is packaged in a 64 pins CQFP white ceramic package with a metal lid and gold leads, not what one is use to seeing a PIC in.
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This is a upgrade that perhaps would have kept the PIC17 alive if Microchip would have done similar. While mask-ROM versions are available the VE2 version replaces the ROM with modern FLASH memory. The K1886VE is Milandr’s version of a PIC17C756A, though updated for the 21st century. They are a fabless company, though with their own packaging/test facilities, specializing in high reliability metal/ceramic packages. This company was Milandr, one of the first post-Soviet IC companies, with ambitious plans, and many highly capable engineers from the Soviet times. In the early 1990’s a IC company was formed in Zelenograd, Russia (just a short distance to the NW of Moscow), the silicon valley of Russia, home to the Angstrem, and Micron IC design houses. After being introduced in the early 1990’s it was discontinued in the early 2000’s, though Microchip continued to provide support (and some devices) to users for some time after that. We have previously talked about the Microchip PIC17, and its less then stellar success in the market. Milandr K1886VE2U PIC17C756A w/ Flash Memory
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