Manufactured byMicrochip
Product groupEnhanced Flash Microcontrollers
DescriptionMicrochip PIC16F876A Series 28-Pin Enhanced Flash Microcontrollers.
High-Performance RISC CPUOnly 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 Up to 8K x 14 words of Flash Program Memory,- Up to 368 x 8 bytes of Data Memory (RAM),- Up to 256 x 8 bytes of EEPROM Data Memory Pinout compatible to other 28-pin or 40/44-pin PIC16CXXX and PIC16FXXX microcontrollers
Peripheral FeaturesTimer0: 8-bit timer/counter with 8-bit prescaler Timer1: 16-bit timer/counter with prescaler, can be incremented during Sleep via external crystal/clock Timer2: 8-bit timer/counter with 8-bit period register, prescaler and postscaler Two Capture, Compare, PWM modules- Capture is 16-bit, max. resolution is 12.5 ns- Compare is 16-bit, max. resolution is 200 ns- PWM max. resolution is 10-bit Synchronous Serial Port (SSP) with SPI™ (Master mode) and I2C™ (Master/Slave) Universal Synchronous Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (USART/SCI) with 9-bit address detection Parallel Slave Port (PSP) – 8 bits wide with external RD, WR and CS controls (40/44-pin only) Brown-out detection circuitry for Brown-out Reset (BOR)
Analog Features10-bit, up to 8-channel Analog-to-Digital Converter (A/D) Brown-out Reset (BOR) Analog Comparator module with:- Two analog comparators- Programmable on-chip voltage reference (VREF) module- Programmable input multiplexing from device inputs and internal voltage reference- Comparator outputs are externally accessible
Special Microcontroller Features100,000 erase/write cycle Enhanced Flash program memory typical 1,000,000 erase/write cycle Data EEPROM memory typical Data EEPROM Retention > 40 years Self-reprogrammable under software control In-Circuit Serial Programming™ (ICSP™) via two pins Single-supply 5V In-Circuit Serial Programming 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 Debug (ICD) via two pins
CMOS TechnologyLow-power, high-speed Flash/EEPROM technology Fully static design Wide operating voltage range (2.0V to 5.5V) Commercial and Industrial temperature ranges Low-power consumption