Luit van Drongelen wrote: > If I recall correctly, the 18Fxxx(x) chips are 16-bit chips, hence > PIC16 architecture > the 16Fxx(x) chips are 14 bit, supported by the PIC architecture port > Actually 18F* has 16-bit wide instructions while 16F* has 14-bit wide instructions.
I think that there is no precise definition of what 8, 16, ... bit CPU means: the address space, the widest chunk of date memory which can be accessed with one instruction, the width of accumulators, ... I would say that both 16F* and 18F* families are 8 bit, which is also Microchip's statement. Borut > Anyone who knows better, please correct me if I'm wrong. > > Greetz, > Luit > > On 3/31/07, *Marc Roessler* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi, > > i am slightly confused... http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/doc/ > sdccman.html/node113.html reads: > The PIC16 port is the portion of SDCC that is responsible > to produce > code for the > Microchip(TM) microcontrollers with 16 bit core. Currently > this > family of microcontrollers > contains the PIC18Fxxx and PIC18Fxxxx. Currently supported > devices > are: ... > > Does this mean that PIC16Fxxx in general is supported, plus the ones > listed below as PIC18Fxxx(x)? > Or does the "PIC16" only refer to the PIC18 series (makes no > sense?)... > Also i am a bit confused because the PIC18F6520 (for example) is not > a 16 bit processor. In fact, none of > the PIC16F.. and PIC18F.. series seems to be... (according to the > Microchip page, only the 24F, 24H and > dsPIC30 and dsPIC33 series are 16 bit processors). > > I'd be happy about a bit of clarification :) > > Greetings, > Marc > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
