April 19, 2011 — Microchip Technology announced AC320011, a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) PICtail Daughter Board that comes with all of the hardware, wireless-communication protocols and application-code examples needed to help designers jump start a location-based service application.
Developed with u-blox, the Daughter Board includes the u-blox NEO-6Q GPS and LEON GSM/GPRS modules, and interfaces with Microchip’s Multimedia Expansion Board (part # DM320005), and PIC32 Starter Kit (part # DM320001). The board enables the quick and easy creation of designs offering communications, as well as a complete graphics interface, with audio, accelerometer and networking capabilities. In addition to integrated GPS for tracking via satellites, the M2M PICtail Daughter Board comes with Global System for Mobile (GSM) and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology to enable phone, text, e-mail and Web communications, including images and location information.
Microchip also offers free-for-download M2M software libraries, to give developers a head start on their coding efforts and reduce time to market.
