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mikroElektronika | Free Online Book | PIC Microcontrollers | Introduction: World of Microcontrollers
As seen in the table on the previous page, excepting “16-bit monsters”- PIC 24FXXX and PIC 24HXXX- all PIC microcontrollers have 8-bit harvard
architecture and belong to one out of three large groups. Therefore, depending on the size of a program word there are first, second and third
category, i.e. 12-, 14- or 16-bit microcontrollers. Having similar 8- bit core, all of them use the same instruction set and the basic hardware
‘skeleton’ connected to more or less peripheral units.
In order to avoid tedious explanations and endless story about the useful features of different microcontrollers, this book describes the operation
of one particular model belonging to “high middle class”. It is about PIC16F887- powerful enough to be worth attention and simple enough to be
easily presented to everybody.
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