While reading the programming specs (S30557B-page 5) for 12C5XX, I discovered the following note: The /MCLR pin should be raised from VIL to VIHH within 9 ms of VDD rise. This is to ensure that the device does not have the PC incremented while in valid operation range. This makes ISP a bit more difficult than for a 16C84, for instance. Anybody reflected over it? Martin Nilsson http://www.sics.se/~mn/ Swedish Institute of Computer Science E-mail: mn@sics.se Box 1263, S-164 28 Kista Fax: +46-8-751-7230 Sweden Tel: +46-8-752-1574