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 PIC16F87/88 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, 7 Kbytes program memory, 368 bytes RAM and 256 bytes EEPROM. On board is a configurable oscillator.

20 MHz Max. CPU Speed
35 Instructions
8 Level Hardware Stack
8 MHz Internal Oscillator – Selectable Frequencies 8 MHz to 31 kHz
16 I/O Pins
Power-On Reset (POR)
Brown-Out Reset (BOR)
Watchdog Timer (WDT)
In-Circuit Serial Programming (ICSP)
In-Circuit Debug (ICD)

1 Channel 10-bit Analogue to Digital Converter (ADC) – PIC16F88 Model Only
Capture, Compare, PWM (CCP) Module
Two 8-bit Timers
One 16-bit Timer
Synchronous Serial Port (SSP) with SPI and I2C
Addressable Universal Synchronous Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (AUSART)