Microchip nanoWatt eXtreme Low Power Technology is also known as “XLP”. As more electronic applications require low power or battery power, energy conservation becomes paramount. Today’s applications must consume little power and, in extreme cases, last for up to twenty years, powered by a battery. Products featuring Microchip’s nanoWatt XLP technology extend battery life and reduce standby currents to support green initiatives worldwide, as shown by the benefits listed in this slide. A number of products such as certain members of the 8-bit mid-range, enhanced mid-range, and PIC18, along with some of the 16-bit PIC24F devices feature XLP technology, enabling low currents for run-time and sleep, where applications spend 90-99% of their operation. nanoWatt XLP Technology allows PIC® microcontrollers to execute code smarter, sleep longer, and maximize battery life. Since many of today’s low power products need advanced peripherals, Microchip offers XLP devices with peripherals like USB, LCD and capacitive touch sensing (or mTouch). This eliminates the need for additional parts in the application, which saves cost, current and complexity. In addition to peripherals, products with nanoWatt XLP have system supervisory circuits specially designed for battery powered products, such as a watchdog timer down to 220 nA, which provides protection against system failure and a brown-out reset down to 45 nA, which protects as batteries are depleted or changed. Lastly, the XLP Battery Life Estimator is a free software utility that can assist in developing ultra low power applications with PIC® MCUs that feature XLP technology. More specifically, it allows the user to profile the application run and sleep time (or duty cycle) and select operating temperature and operating voltage. This software comes preloaded with most common battery specifications to simply use. For more information on PIC® Microcontrollers with nanoWatt XLP Technology, please visit www.microchip.com/xlp.