# The chipKIT™ uC32™ by Digilent The chipKIT™ uC32™ is based on the popular Arduino™ open source hardware prototyping platform, but it adds the performance of the Microchip PIC32 microcontroller. The uC32 is the same form factor as the Arduino™ Uno board and is compatible with many Arduino™ shields. It features a USB serial port interface for connection to the IDE and can be powered via USB or via an external power supply. The uC32 board takes advantage of the powerful PIC32MX340F512H microcontroller. This microcontroller features a 32-bit MIPS processor core running at 80 MHz, 512K of flash program memory, and 32K of SRAM data memory. The uC32 can be programmed using MPIDE which is an integerated development environment based on the original Arduino™ IDE but it has been modified to support PIC32 (while still supporting Arduino™ boards). In addition, the uC32 is fully compatible with the advanced Microchip MPLAB® IDE and the PICKit3 in-system programmer/debugger.