chipKIT MAX32 with new PIC32MZ?

Created Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:44:03 +0000 by jsaily

jsaily

Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:44:03 +0000

Are there any plans to bring out an improved MAX32 compatible board with the new PIC32MZ? The new Wi-Fire board has too few I/O pins for my application :-/

JesseN

Wed, 06 Aug 2014 00:48:52 +0000

Currently there are no plans to dish out a version of the MAX32 with a PIC32MZ. Is the preference centered around the number of I/O pins on the MAX32 board or the PIC32MZ chip on it? if the preference is based on I/0 pins, the chipKIT Pro MX4 provides 74 I/O pins compared to 43 on the WiFire.

--Jesse N

jsaily

Wed, 06 Aug 2014 04:14:47 +0000

Currently there are no plans to dish out a version of the MAX32 with a PIC32MZ. Is the preference centered around the number of I/O pins on the MAX32 board or the PIC32MZ chip on it? if the preference is based on I/0 pins, the chipKIT Pro MX4 provides 74 I/O pins compared to 43 on the WiFire.

My preference would be a MAX32 shield compatible board with the improved processing power & memory of the PIC32MZ. I'm currently using the MAX32 boards for many customer projects like smart antenna control and radar baseband (fast ADC polling & FFT calculation). I like the Arduino Mega form factor too!

I know that there are competing new board like the Intel Galileo but I'd like to stay in the PIC world because the Microchip tool chain is great.

danneman

Sun, 10 Apr 2016 21:47:11 +0000

Is there any news on this topic?

Any plans on building a Max32 board with Pic32MZ?

Best regards Daniel

majenko

Sun, 10 Apr 2016 22:23:53 +0000

AFAIK there is only the Wi-FIRE at the moment with the MZ.

There are plans to make a MAX32 (i.e., Arduino Due) compatible MZ board though.

The problem with the MZ is it has been maturing rapidly. When it was first released it was very buggy. Since then about 4 or 5 different new versions and designs have been released. We have basically been waiting for them to stabilize a little and using the Wi-FIRE as a bit of a test-bed for them (the rev-c uses a different MZ to the rev A and B).

It will probably be my next job after finishing the current board design I am working on.

jsaily

Wed, 20 Apr 2016 12:59:21 +0000

The MAX32 compatible board with MZ would be greatly appreciated! Do you have any insight if there will be peripheral library support from Microchip to MZ processors? I'm a bit afraid that the Chipkit-core + Arduino IDE is too slow for me, and would like to port my existing code and continue with MPLAB XC32 compiler.

majenko

Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:19:16 +0000

In what way is it slow? Peripheral-wise it's just talking to the registers the same as any other environment. Compiler wise it's just the same compiler as XC32.