The PIC17C42A-16/P is a 8-bit powerful (121 nanosecond instruction execution) yet easy-to-program (only 58 single word instructions) CMOS one time programmable (OTP) based Microcontroller packs powerful PIC?(RISC) architecture with up to 8.25 MIPS of processing power. This product offer all of the advantages of the well recognized high-performance x16 architecture with standardized features including 4kB of addressable program memory size, 232bytes of data memory size and 33 general-purpose I/O pins. This device operates at a maximum frequency of 16MHz wide operating voltage of 2.5 to 6V.