The PIC16C range of Microcontrollers from Microchip are 8-bit CMOS 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. Now supplanted by Flash based variants these devices are still popular in legacy designs. For new applications PIC16F variants should be considered.

The PIC16C72/73(A)/74(A)/76/77 family of Microcontrollers is based upon Microchip’s mid-range architecture with an 8 level hardware stack and 35 14-bit instructions. These MCUs provide up to 5 MIPS, up to 14 Kbytes program memory with data memory of 368 bytes RAM. On board is a RC oscillator with ±1% accuracy.

35 Instructions
8 Level Hardware Stack
22 I/O Pins – PIC16C72/73/73A/76
33 I/O Pins – PIC16C74/74A/77
2 Capture, Compare, PWM (CCP) Modules – All models except PIC16C72 which has 1 Module
5 Channel 8-bit Analogue-to-Digital Converter (ADC) – PIC16C72/73/73A/76
8 Channel 8-bit Analogue-to-Digital Converter (ADC) – PIC16C74/74A/77
Two 8-bit Timers
One 16-bit Timer
Synchronous Serial Port (SSP) with SPI and I2C
Universal Synchronous Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (USART/SCI) – All models except PIC16C72
Parallel Slave Port – Models PIC16C74/74A/77 only
Watchdog Timer (WDT)
Power-on Reset (POR)
Power-up Timer (PWRT)
Oscillator Start-up Timer (OST)
Brown-out Reset (BOR)
In-Circuit Serial Programming (ICSP)