PICMicrocontroller

PIC (Peripheral Interface Controller)

•Refers to a group of microcontrollers, produced
by Arizona Microchip.

•Microcontroller is a tiny device used to control

other electronic devices
 Microcontroller
– Is a digital integrated circuit consists of:
• central processing unit
• memory
• input ports
• output ports
 CPU
• This processes the digital signals, does
calculations and logic operations, creates
time delays, sets up sequences of signals
etc.
 Memory
• Program Memory
- Stores the program instructions.
• Data Memory
- where data needed by the PICmicro are
stored.
 Clock
• Synchronizes the activities of the CPU.
• Sends stream of voltage pulses when data
is moved around the system and when the
instructions in the program is carried out.
• Runs at a frequency of 20MHz.
 Ports
• Each port has 8 connections referred to as
bits.
• Bi-directional complex electronic circuits.
• Input port can receive data in the form of
analog or digital signal.
 Analog to Digital Converter (ADC,
A/D)
• “A microcontroller can only process digital
data”
• Divides the range of possible analogue
voltages into equal steps.