Microchip offers a complete range of 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit microcontrollers ranging from very small, low-cost PIC10 devices, to dsPIC products with digital signal processing, to PIC32 products with over 80 MIPS performance. The PIC18 family is at the high end of Microchip's 8-bit microcontrollers, with 10-16 MIPS performance. This family supports 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 XLP technology for very low power applications. Like all of Microchip’s microcontrollers, these products offer socket, software and peripheral compatibility for easy migration and scalability.