The Lite edition of the Proton Development Suite is a special version of our fully-fledged Proton Development Suite. As a standalone product, the Lite Edition is a free and fully functional, non-expiring download which includes the Compiler, the IDE and the ISIS Simulator. Of course, because it’s a Lite Edition, there are some limitations over the Full Edition — The Lite Edition supports the following devices:

·         PIC12C508: The 8-pin, 12-bit 12C508 device is arguably the best-selling microcontroller of all-time, but has now been superceded by the 14-bit 12Fxxx range.

·         PIC12F675: The 8-pin, 14-bit 12F675 is one of the new breed of PICmicros® that incorporates advantages such as ADC, comparators, on-chip EEPROM and of course Flash re-programmability.

·         PIC16F628A: The 18-pin, 14-bit 16F628A is the sucessor to the ever popular, but now very outdated, 16F84 device. The 16F628A offers 2KBytes of code space, 128Bytes of RAM, on-chipEEPROM, comparators, USART and hardware PWM.

·         PIC16F877: The 40-pin, 14-bit 16F877 is the Rolls-Royce of the 14-bit core devices and contains 8KBytes of code space, 368Bytes of RAM, 256Bytes of on-chip EEPROM and more on-chip features than you can shake a stick at - such a USART, HPWM, etc, and is the obvious choice for any new design.

The Lite Edition also has a restriction of 50 lines of valid [1] Lite Edition download also contains the full Proton Development Suite’s manual in PDFformat.