It's an odd coincidence and I don't usually believe in coincidences. I'd hook it up to a PICKit2 or something and see if it identifies it. On Sun, 1 Sep 2019, 18:32 William Couture, wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > Looking at a piece of Chinese electronics (PID controller, a "Rex-C100"),= I > found a Chinese processor > that seems to be a PIC 16F88 clone (from the number), but can't find > anything else about it. > It's identified as HY16F88VB. > > LCSC.COM doesn't know anything about it. > > Searching Google for HY16F88 turns up a datasheet for a Hycon HY16F188 fo= r > a digital scale, which > mentions the HY16F88, but I suspect that it is a typo. (The Hycon 16F188 > is supposed to be a > "Andes 32 Bit CPU Kernel N801 Processor" with a VCC of 2.4V and 3.6V, but > the chip I'm looking > at is running at 5V). > > This is a curiosity question -- is this really a PIC clone, and what is t= he > ballpark price of the chip? > (Since the entire controller was $8, I'm assuming very cheap). > > Thanks! > Bill > > -- > Psst... Hey, you... Buddy... Want a kitten? straycatblues.petfinder.or= g > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .