The PIC18F242-I/SO is a high-performance PIC18 family 8-bit powerful (100 nanosecond instruction execution) yet easy-to-program CMOS flash based Microcontroller packs powerful PIC®(RISC) architecture with up to 10 MIPS of processing power. This product offer all of the advantages of the well recognized high-performance x16 architecture with standardized features including 16kB of addressable program memory size, 768bytes of data memory size, 25 general-purpose I/O pins, two comparators and 5-channel 10-bit analog-to-digital (A/D) converter. This device operates at a maximum frequency of 40MHz wide operating voltage of 2 to 5.5V.