PIC16F84A is another member of the family of 8-bit PIC16F microcontroller family from Microchip Technology. It has an 8-bit timer and comes with an ability of serial programming interface that proves to be very handy for laying out serial communication with other devices also it operates at clock frequency of 20MHz. It contains 64 bytes EEPROM, 1K program memory and 8 bytes of Data memory (RAM) which indicates the memory available for your program and data. You have 13 GPIO pins on the IC to control your project which you can use to control various actuators and LEDs but you will need an additional relay or driver to control motors as max output current is 25mA. It has High Performance RISC architecture CPU. You can use it in your DIY projects and in industrial applications when you need to control low power projects. You can also check these PIC microcontrollers like PIC16F877A 8-bit PIC Microcontroller, PIC12F629 8-bit PIC Microcontroller etc.
Specifications
- Operating Voltage 2.0V to 5.0V
- 10,000 erase/write cycles Enhanced FLASH Program memory
- 13 GPIO Pins with individual direction control
- Four Interrupt Sources
- 15 Special Hardware Registers
- Eight Layer Hardware Stack
Programming PIC Microcontroller
To program the PIC microcontroller, you will need an IDE (Integrated Development Environment, a compiler, and an IPE (Integrated Programming Environment).
IDE: MPLABX v3.35
IPE: MPLAB IPE v3.35
Compiler: XC8
Microchip has given all this three software for free. They can be downloaded directly from their official page.
Additional Resources
Getting Started with PIC microcontroller
Package Contents
1× PIC16F84A Microcontroller