Both families have features for functional safety, and operate up to 5V to increase noise immunity and increase compatibility with the majority of analogue output and digital sensors. Both also have peripherals that can co-operate while the processing core sleeps.

PIC18 Q10 includes the firm’s ‘complementary waveform generator’ peripheral that produces non-overlapping drive waveforms for switching PSUs, as well as an integrated ADC with hardware computation that can filter data autonomously. Human-machine interfaces are a potential application.