pic16f88 microcontroller

[mircea2012]

Hello.
I am a beginner in microcontroller programming and i have a question.
For instance what is the clue (from the pic16f88 hardware documentation) who tells me that a microcontroller is a microcontroller on 8 bit, 16bit or 32 bit ?
Thank you.

 

[Tahmid]

PIC 16 series consists of only 8-bit microcontrollers.

Look for "8-bit" in the description/documentation to know if it's 8-bit. Similarly, the documentation will also mention if it's 16-bit or 32-bit, etc.

PIC16F88 page: https://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en010243

First line of description:

"This powerful (200 nanosecond instruction execution) yet easy–to-program (only 35 single word instructions) CMOS Flash-based 8-bit microcontroller packs Microchip’s powerful PIC® architecture into an 18-pin package and is upwards compatible with the PIC16C7x, PIC16C62xA, PIC16C5X and PIC12CXXX devices."

Hope this helps.
Tahmid.

 

[mircea2012]

Thank you Tahmid for your interest.
But, what i want to know is, if from the documentation (pag. 6 - PIC16F88 DEVICE BLOCK DIAGRAM) there is some part of the hardware who tells me that this microcontroller is on 8 bit ?
For instance, i dont know maybe it is a stuppid question, but Data Bus could be a clue ?

 

[betwixt]

The number of bits on the data bus IS how microcontrollers are clasified. There would be little point in specifying them by address or control bus as these do not influence the performance of their processing.

Brian.