Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Posts: 1640 Location: Cape Cod Mass USA
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 6:43 am
The PIC18 series has 16 bit instructions and 8 bit data.
The PIC16 series has 12 bit instructions and 8 bit data.
For 16 bit data you need to go to the PIC24 series which has 24 bit instructions. _________________ The search for better is endless. Instead simply find very good and get the job done.
bkamen
Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 1615 Location: Central Illinois, USA
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:37 pm
SherpaDoug wrote:
For 16 bit data you need to go to the PIC24 series which has 24 bit instructions.
Well, 16bit native data size.
A PIC18 or PIC16 can handle signed and unsigned integers that are 16bits in size... but they are (2) 8bit bytes.
The PIC24|dsPIC|PIC30/33 have 16bit native integer sizes (with the PIC30/33/dsPIC having even more interesting dsp-like instructions)
Just thought I would elaborate...
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