Recommended Devices

recommended devices and support microchip offers a wide variety of options, and they continue to add new options either organically or through acquisitions in many respects, a general purpose device can be used for most applications, the range of devices we work with has been selected to cater to most applications or to suit the niche requirements of a specific application many of our projects use the pic16f887 or the pic18f45k22 and through the pass the torch series we have been introducing microchip's recommended replacement the pic16f18877 this device is part of a whole family of devices as listed below device family summary the following device families have scope in the projects or solutions that we offer 628 16f series 18 pin pic16f628 pic16f1827 / pic16f1847 16f series 40 pin pic16f877a pic16f887 pic16f18877 see also pic16f18877 device family docid\ r s k86wiwtniwtpxfemx 18f series family 28 | 40 pic18f25k22 (28pin) pic18f45k22 (40pin) 18f series family 64 pin pic18f6410 pic16f1527 passing the torch the series has introduced the #pic16f18877 family of devices as a viable and competent choice in replacing the #pic16f887 as shown in the table below, the family offers a range of choices, all of which are supported by the #radix family of pic development pcbs pass the torch part 1 recommendations docid 0z puyrgvteewocz9ladm pass the torch part 2 memory analog docid\ hrd98awvr2n9hkbrsj0ha pass the torch part 3 economics docid\ gab8scqhr3dmm zihuk e one of the key advantages is that any code written for a device in the family, can in theory be deployed to another device in the family, whether this requires more or less resources radix nano 18 there is no 18 pin device in the family radix nano 20 a and b pic16f18313, pic16f18325 radix nano 28 a and b pic16f18855, pic16f18857 radix duo and sepia pic16f18876, pic16f18877 radix echo there is no device in the family