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Microchip Introduces New General-Purpose Small PIC® Microcontroller
Microchip announces the PIC16F882 - the lowest-cost member of the PIC18F88X family yet. The PIC16F882 provides design engineers with a lower-cost migration option. The PIC16F882, along with the other four members of the PIC16F88X family, are pin- and code-compatible with other 28/40-pin PIC® Microcontrollers - offering a wide range of migration options, while providing a host of new features. The PIC16F88X enhancements include dual internal oscillators with clock switching and fail-safe clock mode; up to 14 ADC channels; an advanced dual comparator module featuring a Set/Reset Latch; and low-power enhancements that extend battery life.
Key • 3.5 Kbytes of Self-write Program Flash memory and low-voltage programming to enable field programmability
• 128 bytes of Data EEPROM for variable data storage
• Onboard In-Circuit Debug module for simpler system troubleshooting
• Advanced Analog Peripherals
o Enhanced analog comparator module, featuring 2 comparators with Set/Reset Latch mode
o 11 10-bit ADC channels
o 0.6V reference voltage for comparators and ADC
• Low-Power Features
o Ultra Low-Power Wake Up
o Enhanced Low-Current Watchdog Timer
o Low-Power Timer 1 Oscillator
• Serial Communication Interfaces
o UART/SCI connectivity via EUSART module
o Master Mode SPI and I2C™ with Address Mask option
• More General Purpose I/O, with up to 36 pins that can be used for I/O, and Interrupt-on-change capability for each I/O pin
• Available in industrial and automotive temperature versions
The PIC16F88X family is supported by the full suite of Microchip’s development tools, including the PICkit™ 2 Development Programmer (PG164120), the free MPLAB® IDE integrated development environment and the low-cost MPLAB ICD 2 in-circuit debugger. In addition, a processor module for the MPLAB ICE 2000 emulator is expected in March.
The PIC16F883, PIC16F884, PIC16F886 and PIC16F887 microcontrollers are in production now, and are available for general sampling at sample.microchip.com and volume production shipments at www.microchipdirect.com. Production volumes of the PIC16F882 microcontroller are expected in April. The PIC16F882, PIC16F883 and PIC16F886 come in 28-pin PDIP, SOIC, SSOP and QFN packages, while the PIC16F884 and PIC16F887 are available in 40-pin PDIP, and 44-pin QFN and TQFP package options. For additional information visit Microchip’s Web site at www.microchip.com/pic16f88x