PIC18-Q84 Microcontrollers (MCUs)

Peripheral Pin Select (PPS) provides ultimate flexibility when routing digital signals to device pins. With PPS, any digital peripheral can be connected to any I/O pin on the fly for a customized layout. This allows you to maintain layout compatibility with older PIC® MCUs, even as new features are implemented. 

The PIC18-Q84 family is equipped with eight Direct Memory Access (DMA) controllers for data transfers between all memory spaces and peripherals independent of the CPU. This enhances system performance and improves power consumption. Vectored Interrupts (VIs) reduce response time by introducing an interrupt hierarchy and directly executing Interrupt Service Routines (ISRs).

The on-chip Custom Logic peripherals on PIC and AVR MCUs eliminate the need for external components and complicated design work. With these on-chip peripherals, you can apply customized logic without physically expanding your application’s size.

The two customizable 16-bit Universal Timers (UTs) can be combined to make a larger timer to deliver advanced capabilities beyond those found on standard timer modules. The PIC18-Q84 family of MCUs also has improved and flexible serial communications interfaces including a UART with support for Asynchronous, DMX, DALI and LIN protocols, plus higher-speed, standalone I2C and SPI modules.

To help you implement functional safety in your application based on the IEC 60730 Class B Safety and UL 1988 requirements, the Windowed Watchdog Timer (WWDT) and the 32-bit CRC with Scan with on-boot capability work in tandem to ensure the integrity of the program Flash contents. These MCUs also offer JTAG boundary scan for testing complex circuitry in PCBs. A Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA) report and Safety Manual are also available for these MCUs.

The on-chip integrated analog peripherals include Zero Cross Detect (ZCD), comparators, a 8-bit Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) and a 12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter with Computation (ADCC) and context switching that automates Capacitive Voltage Divider (CVD) techniques for implementing advanced touch sensing, averaging, filtering, oversampling and automatic threshold comparison.

Peripheral Pin Select (PPS) provides ultimate flexibility when routing digital signals to device pins. With PPS, any digital peripheral can be connected to any I/O pin on the fly for a customized layout. This allows you to maintain layout compatibility with older PIC® MCUs, even as new features are implemented. 

The PIC18-Q84 family is equipped with eight Direct Memory Access (DMA) controllers for data transfers between all memory spaces and peripherals independent of the CPU. This enhances system performance and improves power consumption. Vectored Interrupts (VIs) reduce response time by introducing an interrupt hierarchy and directly executing Interrupt Service Routines (ISRs).

The on-chip Custom Logic peripherals on PIC and AVR MCUs eliminate the need for external components and complicated design work. With these on-chip peripherals, you can apply customized logic without physically expanding your application’s size.