The PIC16F is a range of microcontrollers from Microchip are 8-bit MCUs that incorporate Microchip’s PIC® architecture into a variety of pin and package options, from space efficient 14-pin devices to feature-rich 64-pin devices. Devices with Baseline, Mid-Range or Enhanced Mid-Range architecture are available with numerous different peripheral combinations, giving designers flexibility and choice for their applications.

The PIC16F873/874/876/877 family of microcontrollers is based upon Microchip’s Mid-Range core with an 8 level deep hardware stack and 35 instructions. These MCUs provide up to 5 MIPS, 3.5 Kbytes program memory, 128 bytes RAM and EEPROM of 64 bytes.

Features:

1. 20 MHz Max. CPU Speed
2. 35 Instructions
3. 8 Level Hardware Stack
4. 22 I/O Pins – PIC16F873/876
5. 33 I/O Pins – PIC16F874/877
6. Power-On Reset (POR)
7. Brown-Out Reset (BOR)
8. Power-Up Timer (PWRT)
9. Oscillator Start-Up Timer (OST)
10. Watchdog Timer (WDT)
11. In-Circuit Serial Programming (ICSP)
12. In-Circuit Debug (ICD)

Peripherals:

1. 10-bit Analogue-to-Digital Converter (ADC) – PIC16F873/876 5 Channels, PIC16F874/877 8 Channels
2. Two Capture, Compare, PWM (CCP) Modules
3. Two 8-bit Timers
4. One 16-bit Timer
5. Synchronous Serial Port (SSP) with SPI and I2C
6. Universal Synchronous Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (USART)
7. Parallel Slave Port (PSP) – PIC16F874/877 Models Only