PIC16C710T-20/SS

The PIC16C710T-20/SS microcontroller belongs to the embedded suite of machines designed by the American company Microchip. It is useful for customers’ requiring low cost, low power consumption and low pin count microcontroller solutions. This microcontroller unit is made using the CMOS（complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) process, ensuring both reliable operation as well as high clock frequency without incurring much power losses.

The PIC16C710T-20/SS microcontroller comes with 13 pins, with the central processing unit Core, input/output pins, clock oscillator inputs and register busing lines. It features a one-time programmable, 8-bit flash memory of 20KB, an 8-bit CPU, an instruction set of 65 powerful instruction words and both 8 level interrupt capabilities with 8 internal and external interrupt sources. Additional features include a 10-bit analog-to-digital converter, watchdog timer and brown-out reset protection.

The main application field of the PIC16C710T-20/SS would be code protection, power supplies, display applications, embedded commercial computing, low cost control systems and low cost instrumentation systems.With the PIC16C710T-20/SS’s efficient architecture, it can integrate a wide range of popular peripheral devices, thus making it very suitable for devices operating at low power. It has a low cost of entry because high pin count is not essential as most of the features can be integrated on the microcontroller itself.

The primary purpose of the PIC16C710T-20/SS is its 8-bit core, which handles all the system\'s logic commands. Its processor can be programmed using the assembly language, a low-level language used by the CPU to manage data, memory and software instructions.

The CPU of the PIC16C710T-20/SS consists of 28-bit instruction register and a 15-bit program counter. It uses a Harvard architecture to execute instructions from program memory, RAM memory and data memory, as well as instructions located in the I/O ports.

The working principle of the PIC16C710T-20/SS involves the polling process, or the forecasting of the output from a given input. When the CPU receives an instruction from the program memory, the instruction is first placed into the instruction register and the program counter is incremented accordingly. Then, the instruction is decoded, and the operations are then executed.

Ultimately, the PIC16C710T-20/SS microcontroller is a fast, low cost and energy-efficient solution that provides excellent performance with a wide range of applications. Its features make it well suited for code protection, power supplies, display applications, embedded commercial computing, among other low cost control systems and instrumentation systems.