I have no doubt that those things may happen.  The idea is to shield your
devie from such discharges or interference.  Do you know how or did you
mention this to just pass this info along?

Rob

On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, pedraki wrote:

> Anybody have some experience with the inmunity of the PICs 16c65A to the
> electrostatic discharges and magnetic fields ?
> 
> I have experienced that when the PIC is exposed to interferences, they do
> things very strange :
> 
>         - The ports stat is changed.
>         - The microcontroler jump to other parts of the program (i don't know if
> it is due to a corrupt pclath, stack pointer, or pc counter)
> 
> 
> Could anybody send me their experiences if have ?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
>                                                         Iñaki San José
>                                                         pedraki@redestb.es
>