Microchip has developed a comprehensive microcontroller offering around the industry standard 32-bit ARM processors. The architecture and peripherals are designed to maximize the available performance to the application by a careful mix of on-chip buses, Direct Memory Access controllers (DMA) and distributed memory. All Microchip ARM devices benefit from advanced power management to reduce dynamic and standby power consumption to a minimum.  Microchip offers form, fit and functional compatible memory options on most of its device families except those with different peripheral integration levels.