The 8XC198 family offers low-cost entry into Intel's powerful MCS -96 16-bit microcontroller architecture Intel's CHMOS process provides a high performance processor along with low power consumption To further reduce power requirements the processor can be placed into Idle or Powerdown Mode The 8XC198 is the 8-bit bus version of the 8XC196KB The prefixes mean 80 (ROMless) 83 (ROM) 87 (OTP) One Time Programmable The ROM and OTP are available in 8 Kbytes Bit byte word and some 32-bit operations are available on the 8XC198 With a 16 MHz oscillator a 16-bit addition takes 0 50 ms and the instruction times average 0 37 ms to 1 1 ms in typical applications Four high-speed capture inputs are provided to record times when events occur Six high-speed outputs are available for pulse or waveform generation The high-speed output can also generate four software timers or start an A D conversion Events can be based on the timer or counter Also provided on-chip are an A D converter serial port watchdog timer and a pulse-width-modulated output signal With the commercial (standard) temperature option operational characteristics are guaranteed over the temperature range of 0 C to a 70 C Wth the extended temperature range option operational characteristics are guaranteed over the temperature range of b 40 C to a 85 C