Hello Sylvia Dokua Kwakye. > Hi all, > I am fairly new to PICs and microcontrollers in general. I am > trying to make a decision between a PIC and the 6811 which I am a little > more familiar with. Apart from the smaller size and smaller instruction set > (ie, RISC features), what are other advantages does a PIC, say, the 16C73 > have over the 6811? > > Sylvia I suupose PIC16C73 has less power consumption than HC11. Also new PIC devices had build in brown-out protection circuit. PIC16C73 had less interrupt vectors (total reset and common int vector) I think there are another differencies too... I'll be pleasured to hear about differencies in prices between this chips too ;-) WBR Dmitry.