Introduction to 16-Bit PIC Microcontroller

The 16-Bit PIC controllers represents Mid-Range group of PIC microcontroller. The Mid-Range group of PIC controller is quite similar in Architecture and Programming, with the Baseline group devices. The difference between Baseline and Mid-Range group is, Mid-Range group of PIC controllers comes with additional features and programming and storage space.

Mid-Range PIC group is an extension of Baseline architecture adding support of more memory, timers, interrupts and interface with peripherals like PWM, I2C, SPI and LCD controllers. The Mid-Range developer can use his knowledge for development in Baseline development.

Mid-Range architecture supports 14-bit instruction words.

16-bit PIC Architecture

Peripherals incorporate with 16-Bit PIC Microcontroller

General Purpose Peripherals & device features:
● Real-time Clock & Calendar
● Cyclic Redundancy Check
● USB
● 10 & 10/12-bit A/D Converters
● Comparator
● Direct Memory Access
● Parallel Master
● Pin Select
● CodeGuard Security

Motor Control, Lighting & 3-phase Energy Metering Application Peripherals:
● Motor Control PWM
● Quadrature Encoder Interface
● 10/12-bit A/D Converter

Switch Mode Power Supply & HID Lighting Peripherals:
● SMPS PWM
● SMPS ADC
● Comparators

Audio Peripherals:
● 12-bit A/D Converter
● 16-bit D/A Converter
● Output Compare PWM
● Data Converter Interface

Display Graphics Peripherals:
● Parallel Master Port (QVGA)
● Charge Time Measurement Unit (touch-screen)

Sensor Peripherals:
● 10-bit A/D Converter
● 12-bit A/D Converter
● Input Capture
● Comparator
● Controller Area Network
● Serial Peripheral Interface