The PIC16F range of microcontrollers from Microchip are 8-bit 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. Devices with Baseline, Mid-Range or Enhanced Mid-Range architecture are available with numerous different peripheral combinations, giving designers flexibility and choice for their applications.

The PIC16F873/874/876/877 family of microcontrollers is based upon Microchip’s Mid-Range core with an 8 level deep hardware stack and 35 instructions. These MCUs provide up to 5 MIPS, 3.5 Kbytes program memory, 128 bytes RAM and EEPROM of 64 bytes.

20 MHz Max. CPU Speed
35 Instructions
8 Level Hardware Stack
22 I/O Pins – PIC16F873/876
33 I/O Pins – PIC16F874/877
Power-On Reset (POR)
Brown-Out Reset (BOR)
Power-Up Timer (PWRT)
Oscillator Start-Up Timer (OST)
Watchdog Timer (WDT)
In-Circuit Serial Programming (ICSP)
In-Circuit Debug (ICD)

10-bit Analogue-to-Digital Converter (ADC) - PIC16F873/876 5 Channels, PIC16F874/877 8 Channels
Two Capture, Compare, PWM (CCP) Modules
Two 8-bit Timers
One 16-bit Timer
Synchronous Serial Port (SSP) with SPI and I2C
Universal Synchronous Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (USART)
Parallel Slave Port (PSP) – PIC16F874/877 Models Only