Microchip’s dsPIC33F family of Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) offer designers DSP like performance with the simplicity of an MCU. The dsPIC33FJxxxGPx06/x08/x10 devices are General Purpose DSCs suitable for a variety of applications.

40 MIPS Max. CPU Speed
Modified Harvard architecture
C compiler optimized instruction set architecture
16 bit wide data path
24 bit wide instructions
Linear program memory addressing up to 4M instruction words
Linear data memory addressing up to 64 Kbytes
83 base instructions, mostly one word/one cycle
Sixteen 16-bit general purpose registers
Two 40-bit accumulators with rounding and saturation options
Indirect, Modulo and Bit-Reversed addressing modes
Software stack
16 x 16 fractional/integer multiply operations
32/16 and 16/16 divide operations
Single-cycle multiply and accumulate
Dual data fetch
Up to ±16-bit shifts for up to 40-bit data

12/10-Bit Analogue-to-Digital Converter (ADC) – Up to 32 Channels depending on model
Nine 16-bit Timers/Counters – option to pair up 16-bit timers into 32-bit timer modules
16-Bit Input Capture functions
16-bit Output Compare/PWM output functions
Interrupt Controller
Direct Memory Access (DMA)
Two 3-wire SPI module
I2CTM module – One or Two depending on model
Two UART Modules
Data Converter Interface (DCI Module)
Enhanced CAN (ECAN™) module – One or Two available on some models