Microchip Technology has added to its 28-/40-pin PIC16F72X microcontroller family two 20-pin devices.

The PIC16F(LF)720 and PIC16F(LF)721 MCUs are designed for low power and offer up to 7kbyte of self-write flash program memory.

There is also a temperature-indicator module, an 8-bit analogue-to-digital converter (ADC), a capture/compare PWM module, and various serial communication peripherals, such as I2C, SPI and AUSART.

The self-write flash program memory can be used to perform remote firmware updates, while the temperature-indicator module provides a means for measuring the temperature of the surrounding environment.

Additionally, the integrated communication peripherals can be used for serial data transfer between other devices on or off the PCB.

The PIC16F(LF)720/1 MCUs are available in a 20-pin, 4 mm x 4 mm QFN package, as well as 20-pin PDIP, SOIC and SSOP packages.

The supplier has its standard development tools including the free MPLAB IDE; HI-TECH C compiler for PIC16 MCUs, PICkit 3 in-circuit debugger/programmer, MPLAB ICD 3 in-circuit debugger, and the MPLAB PM3 universal device programmer.

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