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From: NCSProduct <NCSProduct@AOL.COM>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sunday, December 07, 1997 06:59
Subject: 16C84 vs 16F84


>Is the 16F84 a drop-in replacement for the 16C84?
>
>That is to say, I am currently using 16C84's in a product,
>programming them with a PIC16Cxx-PGM from Parallax,
>and using the Parallax assembler.
>
>I want to know if I can switch to 16F84 without updating my
>programmer or assembler..


    In almost all ways, the 16F84 is identical to the 16C84, about the only
real difference from a programming point of view is the the power up timer
bit is reversed, aside from that there are only good things, most notably it
has twice the amount of RAM, a really good thing. TTYL