On May 23, 2011, Microchip Technology and Digilent Inc. announced the release of two new development boards, the chipKIT UNO32™ and the chipKIT MAX32™. Both of these boards featured Microchip Technology’s PIC32 Microcontrollers that utilize the MIPS® M4K 32-bit Core. These two platforms were developed specifically to introduce 32-bit functionality to the Arduino™ community that up until that time was limited to 8-bit. Special attention was made during the development to ensure users could move into the 32-bit space while still enjoying the code references, application examples and other resources that exist on the main Arduino™ site with little to no modification.