12-bit...14-bit...16-bit

Guest · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 3:56 pm

I'm new to this. I hope you all would bear with me.

How do you determine (under which section is this normally listed in the datasheet) if the PIC device is a 12-bit , 14-bit, or 16-bit part?

What does this x-bit refer to?

Konrad · Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 34

PIC12 = 12bit
PIC16 = 14bit
PIC18 = 16bit
it is size of instructions Smile

Haplo · Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 659 Location: Sydney, Australia

By the product family(PIC12, PIC14, PIC16, PIC17 and PIC18). Go to this page and scroll down to the bottom:

http://asp.microchip.com/wwwParamChart/Tree.aspx?mid=&treeid=1&wdid=132&gdir=1010

SteveS · Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 126

And since there is always an exception to a rule: 12F6xx are 14 bit - go figure.

- Steves

Guest · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 3:48 pm

And what about 16c56? Isn't this a 12-bit?

Haplo · Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 659 Location: Sydney, Australia

According to the Microchip product chart (look at the previous posts for link), 16C56 is a 12-bit device.