DEVICE OVERVIEW
This document contains device specific information for the operation of the PIC16F72 device. Additional information may be found in the PIC™ Mid-Range MCU Reference Manual (DS33023), which may be down loaded from the Microchip website. The Reference Manual should be considered a complementary document to this data sheet, and is highly recommended reading for a better understanding of the device architecture and operation of the peripheral modules.
Device Included:
• PIC16F72
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
• 2K x 14 words of Program Memory, 128 x 8 bytes of Data Memory (RAM)
• Pinout compatible to PIC16C72/72A and PIC16F872
• Interrupt capability
• Eight-level deep hardware stack
• Direct, Indirect and Relative Addressing modes
CMOS Technology:
• Low power, high speed CMOS FLASH technology
• Fully static design
• Wide operating voltage range: 2.0V to 5.5V
• Industrial temperature range
• Low power consumption:
- < 0.6 mA typical @ 3V, 4 MHz
- 20 μA typical @ 3V, 32 kHz
- < 1 μA typical standby current
Feature
Special Microcontroller :
• 1,000 erase/write cycle FLASH program memory typical
• 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
• In-Circuit Serial Programming™ (ICSP™) via 2 pins
• Processor read access to program memory
