These are the three PIC's that I keep on hand...

8pin - 12F683
14pin - 16F688
20pin - 16F690

They are all footprint compatible, are pretty much in the top of their category for the pin count, in terms of memory capacity, ram, eeprom.

Each jump to a larger package just adds 6 more I/O pins while maintaining similar footprint.




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