>Anybody have used the DP8572A ( RTC from National) with a pic? is there >some special care? > > Claudia Ximena Bustamante Osorio > Ingenieria Electronica > Hi Claudia, No, but I've used the Dallas DS1202 RTC and I'm very happy with it. It's 8 DIP and beside the RTC it has 24 bytes of non-volatile RAM. Octavio ====================================================== Octavio Nogueira - e-mail: nogueira@mandic.com.br http://www.geocities.com/~oct_nogueira "ProPic" Production PIC Programmer Windows under US$20 ======================================================