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 ·15mA typical @ 3V,
    
  • 32 kHz ·< 1mA typical standby current

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, withexternal RD, WR and CS controls
• Brown-out detection circuitry for Brown-out Reset (BOR)