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 PIC16C61/62(A)/63/64(A)/65(A)/66/67 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 8 Kbytes program memory with data memory of up to 368 bytes RAM. On board is a RC oscillator with ±1% accuracy.

35 Instructions
8 Level Hardware Stack
13 – 33 I/O Pins depending on model
1 – 2 Capture, Compare, PWM (CCP) Modules – Model Dependant
Two 8-bit Timers
One 16-bit Timer
Synchronous Serial Port (SSP) with SPI and I2C
Universal Synchronous Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (USART) – Some Models
Parallel Slave Port – Some Models
Watchdog Timer (WDT)
Power-on Reset (POR)
Power-up Timer (PWRT)
Oscillator Start-up Timer (OST)
Brown-out Reset – Some Models
In-Circuit Serial Programming (ICSP)