GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The PIC16CXX is a family of low-cost, high-perfor mance, CMOS, fully-static, 8-bit microcontrollers.

PIC16C6X Microcontroller Core Features:

• High performance RISC CPU

• Only 35 single word instructions to learn

• All single cycle instructions except for program branches which are two-cycle

• Operating speed: DC - 20 MHz clock input

DC - 200 ns instruction cycle

• Interrupt capability

• Eight level deep hardware stack

• Direct, indirect, and relative addressing modes

• Power-on Reset (POR)

• Power-up Timer (PWRT) and Oscillator Start-up Timer (OST)

• Watchdog Timer (WDT) with its own on-chip RC oscillator for reliable operation

• Programmable code-protection

• Power saving SLEEP mode

• Selectable oscillator options

• Low-power, high-speed CMOS EPROM/ROM technology

• Fully static design

• Wide operating voltage range: 2.5V to 6.0V

• Commercial, Industrial, and Extended temperature ranges

• Low-power consumption:

•< 2 mA @ 5V, 4 MHz

•15 µA typical @ 3V, 32 kHz

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PIC16C6X Peripheral Features:

• Timer0: 8-bit timer/counter with 8-bit prescaler

• Timer1: 16-bit timer/counter with prescaler, can be incremented during sleep via external crystal/clock

• Timer2: 8-bit timer/counter with 8-bit period register, prescaler and postscaler

• Capture/Compare/PWM (CCP) module(s)

• Capture is 16-bit, max resolution is 12.5 ns, Compare is 16-bit, max resolution is 200 ns, PWM max resolution is 10-bit.

• Synchronous Serial Port (SSP) with SPI and I2C

• Universal Synchronous Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (USART/SCI)

• Parallel Slave Port (PSP) 8-bits wide, with external RD, WRand CScontrols

• Brown-out detection circuitry for Brown-out Reset (BOR)