Development Tools

A complete suite of tools is available to help get your design to market. Choose from low-cost starter kits, fully featured development boards, MPLAB Harmony Software Framework, MPLAB® X IDE and MPLAB XC Compilers as well as a range of debuggers.

 

Starter Kits:

• PIC32MZ EF Starter Kit

• PIC32MZ EF Starter Kit w/ Crypto

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Development Boards & Expansion Boards

• Multimedia Expansion Board – II

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Development Software

• MPLAB® Harmony Software Framework

  • MPLAB Harmony is a flexible, abstracted, fully integrated firmware development environment for PIC32 microcontrollers.

• MPLAB® Harmony Graphics Library

  • The MPLAB Harmony Graphics Library is highly modular and can be used with Microchip´s 32-bit microcontrollers. Supports up to 24 bpp color depth, gradients, transparency, and alpha blending. This library is free to Microchip customers and is available as part of MPLAB Harmony

• Visiual Design Tools

  • Visual Design Tools that are part of MPLAB Harmony enable development of interactive GUIs

• MPLAB® XC Compiler for PIC32 MCUs

  • Full-featured ANSI-compliant C compiler for PIC32 microcontrollers

• MPLAB® X IDE

  • Free Integrated Development Environment for all Microchip microcontrollers

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Application Demos​

• Object

The object demonstration enables screen design using the MPLAB Harmony Graphics Composer through the standard types of objects/widgets that exist in the Graphics Object Layer (GOL) of the Graphics Library. The demonstration is composed of several pages of examples.

• Primitive

The Primitive example demonstrates primitive rendering of geometry, images, and fonts. The demonstration displays various circles, lines, rectangles, images depths, alias and non-aliased fonts​

• GFX_CAMERA

The gfx_camera demo exercises the Omnivision camera sensor running on the MEB II. It utilizes LCC graphics with the DMA of the PIC32 to bring graphics from a camera sensor to an LCD without the need of a graphics controller.

• GFX_CDC_COM_PORT_SINGLE

This demonstration application creates a GFX USB CDC Device that enumerates as a single COM port on the host personal computer. The application demonstrates two-way communication between the USB device and the personal computer host. The application allows the user to enter keypad digits and a backspace from a PC host USB/Serial program to the GFX UI keypad edit box display.

• GFX_PHOTO_FRAME

This demonstration application shows the capabilities of GFX, USB middleware, and the SQI. In this demonstration, off-chip SQI Flash memory (SST26VF032) is used as a medium to store images through the USB-CDC, XMODEM protocol, and then render those images on the MEB II display through the GFX Stack.

• Segger_emWIN

The segger_emwin demo provides the ability to display some of the many features supported by the SEGGER emWin Graphics Library as a simple Graphical User Interface (GUI) demonstration​

• External_resources

This demonstration provides information on how to access graphics resources that are stored on external memory.

• Emwin_quickstart

Demonstrates integration of SEGGER emWin GUI application code with MPLAB Harmony

Documentation

• Application Notes

  • AN1387 - Using PIC32 MCUs to Develop Low-Cost Controllerless (LCC) Graphics Solutions

• Help Files

  • MPLAB Harmony Application Help

• Data Sheets

  • PIC32MZ Embedded Connectivity with Floating Point Unit (EF) Family

  • PIC32MX1XX/2XX/5XX 64/100-pin Family Data Sheet

  • PIC32MX330/350/370/430/450/470 Data Sheet

  • PIC32MX5XX/6XX/7XX Family Data Sheet

• Brochures

  • Graphics and Segmented Display Solutions

  • Touch and Input Sensing

• Sell Sheets

  • PIC32MZ with FPU Sell Sheet

  • PIC32 Graphics Solutions Sell Sheets

Training/Getting Started

• MPLAB Harmony training

• Graphics Library training

• 32-bit Microcontrollers training

• 32-bit Microcontrollers forums