MCU Introduction

The PIC32MX device is a complex System-on-Chip (SoC) that is based on the MIPS M4K^®  microprocessor core. This page provides an overview of the system architecture and features of PIC32 microcontrollers that feature the M4K microprocessor core. The M4K cores are state of the art, 32-bit, low-power, Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) processor cores with the MIPS32 Release 2 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA).

Please visit the following links to learn more about these microprocessor cores and to download the user's guides and data sheets.

• Microchip PIC32MX CPU Reference Manual
• MIPS M4K Microprocessor Cores
• MIPS32 Architecture
• "See MIPS Run" by Dominic Sweetman
• "Computer Organization and Design" by Henessey and Patterson