Ideal for connectivity applications that benefit from the availability of the double asynchronous serial port, the flexible synchronous serial port (I²C™ or SPI) as well as large amounts of RAM buffer memory and Flash program memory. These include instrumentation panels, TCP/IP enabled embedded applications as well as metering and industrial control and monitoring applications. The PIC18F8720 is also upward software compatible with PIC16 and PIC17 devices with a pin-out that is functionally compatible with the PIC17C76X family of OTP devices.