16-bit PIC® MCU Peripherals
Last modified by Microchip on 2023/11/10 11:07
Every 16-bit PIC® MCU or dsPIC® Digital Signal Controller (DSC) is equipped with a variety of hardware peripherals. Having an understanding of the peripheral's operations and details on their functional use can be helpful for application designers. The following table contains a list of peripherals available on the latest 16-bit PIC MCU devices. We have provided links in the Peripheral Index section of this page to descriptions of the operation and use of the peripherals as well as sample code.
MPLAB® Code Configurator (MCC) can help produce peripheral initialization code for 8-bit and 16-bit devices.
Peripheral Index
| Digital I/O | |
|---|---|
| I/O Ports | Digital Input and Output Pins |
| Intelligent Analog | |
| ADC: Analog-to-Digital Converter | General-purpose ADC with up to 10/12/16-bit resolution |
| HS ADC: High-speed Analog-to- Digital Converter | High-speed SAR ADC with 12-bit resolution and sampling speeds of 10 Msps |
| Delta Sigma ADC | Bipolar differential inputs configurable gain integrated PGA Delta Sigma ADC |
| DAC Digtal-to-Analog Converter | General-purpose DAC with up to 16 bits of resolution. |
| CVref Internal Voltage Reference | Programmable voltage reference with multiple internal and external connections. |
| HS Comp: High-Speed Comparator | General-purpose comparator with <1 ns response time |
| OPA: Operational Amplifier | General-purpose op-amp for internal and external signal source conditioning |
| Waveform Control | |
| CCP/ECCP (Enhanced) Capture/Compare/PWM | Multi-purpose timers with functionality of comparable input capture, output compare, and PWM with four outputs. |
| SCCP: Single Capture/Compare/PWM | Multi-purpose 16-/32-bit input capture, output compare, PWM |
| MCCP: Multiple _ Capture/Compare/PWM | Multi-purpose 16-/32-bit input capture, output compare, PWM with up to six outputs and an extended range of output control features. |
| PWM Pulse Width Modulation | 16-bit PWM with up to nine independent time bases |
| MC PWM Motor Control PWM | 16-bit motor control PWM with multiple synchronized pulse-width modulation, up to six outputs with four duty cycle generators with resolutions down to 1 ns |
| SMPS PWM Power Supply PWM | Power Supply PWM with multiple synchronize pulse-width modulation, up eight outputs with four independent times bases with resolution down to 1 ns |
| Input Capture | Input capture with an independent timer base to capture external events |
| Output Compare | Output compare with an independent time base to compare the value with compare registers and generate an output pulse, or train of pulses, on a compare match event. |
| Timing and Measurement | |
| 8-/16-/32-bit Timers | General-purpose timer/counters with compare capability |
| RTCC: Real-Time Clock/Calendar | Real-time clock and calendar with a binary coded decimal (BCD) clock calendar to maintain accurate timing with an external 32.768 kHz crystal |
| QEI: Quadrature Encoder Interface | Quadrature encoder interface to increment encoders for obtaining mechanical position data |
| Safety and Monitoring | |
| LVD Low Voltage Detection | LVD detects drops in system voltages. Useful for battery applications. |
| WDT: Watch Dog Timer | Supervisory circuit that generates a reset when software timing sequence anomalies arise. |
| DMT: Dead Man Timer | Supervisory circuit that generates a reset when instruction sequence anomalies arise. |
| CRC: Cyclical Redundancy Check | Automatically calculates CRC checksum for either Progam/EEPROM memory or a communications packet. |
| Class B Safety | Hardware Class B support with Flash error correction, backup system oscillator, WDT, DMT, CRC, etc.. |
| Communications | |
| USB: Universal Serial Bus | USB 2.0 full-speed host, device and OTG peripheral |
| CAN: Controller Area Network | Industrial and Automotive-centric communications bus. |
| UART | Full-duplex, 8- or 9-bit serial data communications peripheral |
| LIN: Local Interconnect Network | Automotive and Industrial communications bus. |
| IrDA Infrared Data Association | IrDA® encoder and decoder using UART |
| I²C: Inter-Integrated Circuit | 2-wire industry-standard interface |
| SPI: Serial Peripheral Interface | 4-wire industry-standard communication interface |
| I²S: Data Converter Interface | 3-wire synchronous half-duplex serial interface to handle the stereo data |
| Parallel Port | General-purpose parallel communication interface |
| User Interface | |
| CTMU | Charge Time Measurement Unit - for capacitive touch |
| LCD Controller | |
| GFX: Graphics Controller | Controller for Raster Graphics processing |
| Secure Data | |
| Cryptographic Engine | Independent NIST-standard encryption and decryption engine |
| Secure Key Storage | Multiple options for key storage, selection, and management |
| RNG: Random Number Generator | Hardware true random number generation |
| System Flexibility & Power Management | |
| Dual Partition Flash | Dual partition Flash operation, allowing the support of robust bootloader systems and fail-safe storage of application code, with options designed to enhance code security |
| CLC: Configurable Logic Cell | Integrated combinational and sequential logic with custom interconnection and re-routing of digital peripherals |
| PPS: Peripheral Pin Select | I/O pin remapping of digital peripherals for greater design flexibility and improved EMI board layout |
| PTG: Peripheral Trigger Generator | User-programmable sequencer, capable of generating complex trigger signal sequences to coordinate the operation of other peripherals |
| DMA: Direct Memory Access | Direct memory access for transfer of data between the CPU and its peripherals without CPU assistance |
| Sleep, Idle, and PMD | Low-power saving modes |
| DOZE mode | Ability to run the CPU core slower than the system clock used by the internal peripherals |
| XLP: eXtreme Low Power Technology | XLP technology devices with extreme low-power operation modes for battery/low-power applications |
| Vbat | Hardware-based power mode that maintains only the most critical operations when a power loss occurs on Vdd |