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A PIC is even easier. A ceramic resonator (or crystal + two caps) is pretty much it and some of them don't even require that if you're happy with the internal RC oscillator. You don't need odd voltages like 5.5V either.


Yeah, but lets face it, putting a crystal, 2 caps and a voltage regulator is hardly demanding is it? Any design with a pic is going to have at least one voltage regulator!

It's a typo anyway, I meant 3.3V!