GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The PIC16C7X is a family of low-cost, high-performance, CMOS, fully-static, 8-bit microcontrollers with integrated analog-to-digital (A/D) converters, in the PIC16CXX mid-range family.

All PIC16/17 microcontrollers employ an advanced RISC architecture. The PIC16CXX microcontroller family has enhanced core features, eight-level deep stack, and multiple internal and external interrupt sources. The separate instruction and data buses of the Harvard architecture allow a 14-bit wide instruction word with the separate 8-bit wide data. The two stage instruction pipeline allows all instructions to execute in a single cycle, except for program branches which require two cycles. A total of 35 instructions (reduced instruction set) are available. Additionally, a large register set gives some of the architectural innovations used to achieve a very high performance.

PIC16C7X 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

? Up to 8K x 14 words of Program Memory, up to 368 x 8 bytes of Data Memory (RAM)

? 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 technology

? Fully static design

? Wide operating voltage range: 2.5V to 6.0V

? High Sink/Source Current 25/25 mA

? Commercial, Industrial and Extended temperature ranges

? Low-power consumption:

? < 2 mA @ 5V, 4 MHz

? 15 μA typical @ 3V, 32 kHz

? < 1 μA typical standby current

PIC16C7X 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 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

? 8-bit multichannel analog-to-digital converter

? 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, WR and CS controls

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