The PIC16F76 microcontroller is celebrated in the electronics industry for its robust performance, low power consumption, and versatile peripheral set, making it a staple in complex power supplies, industrial telemetry, smart metering systems, and automotive instrumentation. This embedded chip features a highly efficient architecture packed with ample flash memory, an integrated analog-to-digital converter, and internal eeprom spaces designed to govern time-sensitive logic. Manufacturers frequently leverage these capabilities to deploy sophisticated firmware that manages critical system actions. Because this proprietary software represents a massive engineering investment, the microcontroller is almost always deployed in a locked or protected state, utilizing rigid hardware-level restrictions to ensure the internal program remains completely secured against unauthorized duplication or external digital intrusion.

This document contains device specific information about the following devices PIC16F76,

PIC16F76 devices are available only in 28-pin packages, while PIC16F77 devices are available in 40-pin and 44-pin packages. All devices in the PIC16F7X family share common architecture, with the following differences:

· The PIC16F73 and PIC16F76 have one-half of the total on-chip memory of the PIC16F74 and PIC16F77

· The 28-pin devices have 3 I/O ports, while the 40/44-pin devices have 5

· The 28-pin devices have 11 interrupts, while the 40/44-pin devices have 12

· The 28-pin devices have 5 A/D input channels, while the 40/44-pin devices have 8

· The Parallel Slave Port is implemented only on the 40/44-pin devices:

The available features are summarized in Table 1-1.

Block diagrams of the PIC16F73/76 and PIC16F74/77

Additional information may be found in the PICmicro™ Mid-Range Reference Manual (DS33023), which may be obtained from your local Microchip Sales Representative or downloaded from the Microchip website. The Reference Manual should be considered a complementary document to this data sheet, and is highly recommended reading for a better understanding of the device architecture and operation of the peripheral modules.

MEMORY ORGANIZATION:

There are two memory blocks in each of these PICmicro® MCUs. The Program Memory and Data Memory have separate buses so that concurrent access can occur and is detailed in this section. The Program Memory can be read internally by user code

Additional information on device memory may be found in the PICmicro Mid-Range Reference Manual (DS33023). e’>· The 28-pin devices have 11 interrupts, while the 40/44-pin devices have 12

· The 28-pin devices have 5 A/D input channels, while the 40/44-pin devices have 8

· The Parallel Slave Port is implemented only on the 40/44-pin devices

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