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History of PIC® MCU

Microchip Technology Inc. formed from a group that stemmed from a semiconductor division of General Instruments which mainly focused on developing a series of controllers that would be programmable, allow for high output current and include input/output capabilities. The " PIC® " controller was based on RISC (reduced instruction set code) architecture, allowing for an efficient one instruction per clock cycle at 20 Mhz. These fast, 8-bit microcontrollers outscored the competitors with 20 ma of source and sink current on each I/O pin.



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