Dwayne Reid schreef op 15-Nov-14 12:51 AM:
> At 03:23 PM 11/14/2014, peter green wrote:
>> Dwayne Reid wrote:
>>> At 02:12 PM 11/14/2014, David C Brown wrote
>>> I stand to be corrected here, but as far as I know, Microchip has not
>>> yet obsoleted *any* PIC parts.  You can still order the original PIC
>>> 16C54 series and, from what I can tell, every PIC part that has ever
>>> been available since then.  The older parts are expensive but they
>>> are still available.
>> The PIC16C84 is listed as end of life and afaict has been for some time
>> (the fact there is no ROHS information speaks volumes). AIUI the 16C84
>> was microchips first electrically erasable part and was very popular
>> among hobbyists at the time.
> Again, I could be wrong here.  What I was told by one of our FAEs was
> that the 16C84 was simply renamed to 16F84 because it *was* the first
> electrically-erasable part that Microchip made.  In other words, it
> wasn't obsoleted, it was simply renamed so as to be in line with the
> upcoming flood of electrically-erasable parts.
>
>

The 16C84, 16F84 and 16F84A are closely related, but they are definitely=20
not the same chips. There are for insdtance subtle differences in the=20
fuses, and the erase sequence, and the 16F84A has a chip ID, which the=20
other two lack.

Wouter
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