GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The PIC16C63A/65B/73B/74B devices are low cost, high performance, CMOS, fully-static, 8-bit micro controllers in the PIC16CXX mid-range family. All PICmicro® microcontrollers employ an advanced RISC architecture. The PIC16CXX microcontroller family has enhanced core features, eight-level deep stack and multiple internal and external interrupt sources. The separate instruction and data buses of the Harvard architecture allow a 14-bit wide instruction word with the separate 8-bit wide data. The two stage instruction pipeline allows all instructions to execute in a single cycle, except for program branches, which require two cycles. A total of 35 instructions (reduced instruction set) are available. Additionally, a large register set gives some of the architectural innovations

used to achieve a very high performance.

PIC16CXX Microcontroller Core Features:

• High performance RISC CPU

• Only 35 single word instructions to learn

• All single cycle instructions except for program branches which are two cycle

• Operating speed: DC - 20 MHz clock input

                           DC - 200 ns instruction cycle

• 4 K x 14 words of Program Memory,  192 x 8 bytes of Data Memory (RAM)

• Interrupt capability

• Eight-level deep hardware stack

• Direct, indirect and relative addressing modes

• Power-on Reset (POR)

• Power-up Timer (PWRT) and Oscillator Start-up Timer (OST)

• Watchdog Timer (WDT) with its own on-chip RC oscillator for reliable operation

• Programmable code protection

• Power-saving SLEEP mode

• Selectable oscillator options

• Low power, high speed CMOS EPROM technology

• Wide operating voltage range: 2.5V to 5.5V

• High Sink/Source Current 25/25 mA

• Commercial, Industrial and Automotive temperature ranges

• Low power consumption:

- < 5 mA @ 5V, 4 MHz

- 23 µA typical @ 3V, 32 kHz

- < 1.2 µA typical standby current