Hybrid Microcontrollers (MCUs)
Last modified by Microchip on 2026/09/10 08:39
As embedded systems become more complex, designers need greater processing power and enhanced flexibility to handle larger volumes of data, support higher-display resolutions and manage multitasking. Hybrid microcontrollers (MCUs) fill the gap between traditional MCUs and multicore microprocessors (MPUs) to unleash higher performance, expand memory and storage and future-proof designs while consuming low power.
Microchip offers hybrid MCUs as Systems-on-Chips (SoCs), Systems in Packages (SiPs) with embedded DRAM and Systems on Modules (SOMs). They are supported by our MPLAB® X IDE and MPLAB Harmony development environments to enable development for RTOS and bare-metal software, Linux® OS and Microchip mainline distributions.