The Microchip Technology PIC18F46K42-I/P family type, PDIP package, through-hole mount, 40-pin 8-bit microcontroller. It has a maximum voltage rating of 5.5V. The microcontroller operates at a maximum speed of 64MHz and features 64kb ISP flash program memory, 4096 bytes of SRAM and 1024bytes of EEPROM. It offers low power features, performance improvements and design flexibility options that easily and rapidly enable the complex set of functions required by many embedded control applications.

• 36 numbers of I/O pins
• 5-bit Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)
• Asynchronous UART, RS-232, RS-485 compatible
• Device Information Area (DIA) for data storage of temp sensor factory calibration value, factory ID and FVR values for ADC and COMP
• DMA, SMBus and PMBUSTM compatible
• IDLE, SLEEP and DOZE modes selectively for power reduction
• Interrupt vector table for faster interrupt response time
• It has 12-bit Digital-to-Analogue (ADC2) with computation
• Low power consumption and system flexibility
• Memory access partition (MAP) - Customize flash partitioning with bootloader write protection
• Operating temperature ranges between -40°C and 125°C
• Programmable single or dual priority
• Separate transmit and receive buffers with 2-byte FIFO and DMA capabilities
• Two comparators
• Two level hardware context saving
• Zero cross detect (ZCD)

• Embed designs
• Household appliances
• Industrial