Note the following details of the code protection feature on PICmicro
®
MCUs.
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The PICmicro family meets the specifications contained in the Microchip Data Sheet.
Microchip believes that its family of PICmicro microcontrollers is one of the most secure products of its kind on the market today,
when used in the intended manner and under normal conditions.
There are dishonest and possibly illegal methods used to breach the code protection feature. All of these methods, to our knowl-
edge, require using the PICmicro microcontroller in a manner outside the operating specifications contained in the data sheet.
The person doing so may be engaged in theft of intellectual property.
Microchip is willing to work with the customer who is concerned about the integrity of their code.
Neither Microchip nor any other semiconductor manufacturer can guarantee the security of their code. Code protection does not
mean that we are guaranteeing the product as “unbreakable”.
Code protection is constantly evolving. We at Microchip are committed to continuously improving the code protection features of
our product.
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If you have any further questions about this matter, please contact the local sales office nearest to you.
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and may be superseded by updates. It is your responsibility to
ensure that your application meets with your specifications.
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Company’s quality system processes and
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PICmicro
®
8-bit MCUs, K
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code hopping
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2002 Microchip Technology Inc.
M
• PIC16F73
• PIC16F74
PIC16F7X
Peripheral Features:
• Timer0: 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
• 8-bit, up to 8-channel Analog-to-Digital converter
• Synchronous Serial Port (SSP) with SPI (Master
mode) and I
2
C (Slave)
• Universal Synchronous Asynchronous Receiver
Transmitter (USART/SCI)
• 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)
28/40-Pin 8-Bit CMOS FLASH Microcontrollers
Devices Included in this Data Sheet:
• PIC16F76
• PIC16F77
High Performance RISC CPU:
• 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
• Up to 8K x 14 words of FLASH Program Memory,
Up to 368 x 8 bytes of Data Memory (RAM)
• Pinout compatible to the PIC16C73B/74B/76/77
• Pinout compatible to the PIC16F873/874/876/877
• Interrupt capability (up to 12 sources)
• Eight level deep hardware stack
• Direct, Indirect and Relative Addressing modes
• Processor read access to program memory
Special Microcontroller Features:
• 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 two
pins
CMOS Technology:
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Low power, high speed CMOS FLASH technology
Fully static design
Wide operating voltage range: 2.0V to 5.5V
High Sink/Source Current: 25 mA
Industrial temperature range
Low power consumption:
- < 2 mA typical @ 5V, 4 MHz
- 20
µA
typical @ 3V, 32 kHz
- < 1
µA
typical standby current
Device
Program Memory
Data
(# Single Word
SRAM
Instructions)
(Bytes)
4096
4096
8192
8192
192
192
368
368
SSP
I/O
Interrupts
8-bit
A/D (ch)
5
8
5
8
CCP
(PWM)
2
2
2
2
SPI
(Master)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
I
2
C
(Slave)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
USART
Timers
8/16-bit
2/1
2/1
2/1
2/1
PIC16F73
PIC16F74
PIC16F76
PIC16F77
22
33
22
33
11
12
11
12
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
2002 Microchip Technology Inc.
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