High levels of integration of integrated circuits a nd the low acquisition cost of these devices, have brought an increased use of these as part of all types of electronic devices ranging from appliances to me dical equipment. There is an important variety of manufacturers of m icrocontrollers within those highlighted Atmel, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and microchip, each bringing benefits to be discussed a ccording to the application being developed. The authors of this pa per has selected Microchip technology, better known as PIC, because of its popularity in many academic and commercial developments in the search for alternatives for their programming primarily in the Windows environment for this paper. As part of the work of this article, a series of si mple counting programs have been developed in different programming leve ls.