Microchip offers a complete range of 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers and digital signal controller families ranging from very small low-cost PIC10 devices to sophisticated dsPIC products with digital signal processing. The PIC18 family is an 8-bit MCU which is at the high end of our 8-bit MCUs, with 10-16 MIPS performance (40 – 64MHz). In addition to performance, the PIC18 family has a range of program flash up to 128KB and packages ranging from 18 to 100 pins. The PIC18 devices use Microchip’s high performance 8-bit architecture with a 16-bit instruction word and 8-bit data. Nearly all instructions execute in a single cycle making this RISC architecture extremely efficient. The PIC18 family has a rich set of integrated communication and connectivity peripherals to reduce application system cost and many of the PIC18 devices include NanoWatt technology for power management. Like all of Microchip’s microcontrollers, these products offer socket, software and peripheral compatibility for easy migration and scalability.