Hear hear!. But also my pet gripe. Please may we have a CMP instruction.
It is very aggravating that you cannot test a register for a value
without destroying W or another register (AFAIK). And could Mchip take
the individual responsible for the bizarre sublw instruction and the
backwards behaviour of the C flag and shoot him or her before they
design any more microcontrollers. Finally can we have an instruction to
save W and status when servicing an interrupt and another to restore
them to avoid this silly swapf mumbo-jumbo - ingenious but peculiar.

Take heart - code-protected devices *can* be saved - use a germicidal UV
lamp to restore them from the dead - takes about 10 mins. Feeble EPROM
erasers don't cut it for this task.

PS: has anyone heard any news about the Scenix chip - I still think its
the hardware equivalent of vapourware but others have said it does
exist.

> ----------
> From:         Alex Holden[SMTP:alex_holden@GEOCITIES.COM]
> Reply To:     alex_holden@geocities.com
> Sent:         Wednesday, January 14, 1998 4:27 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      PIC wish list
>
> I was just wondering what things others would most like to see
> implemented in PICs (or even other microcontrollers such as Atmel).
> Perhaps the fabled 'Microchip Lurkers' could pass on the best ideas to
> their R&D department! Here are some of my ideas:
>
> Flash or EEPROM program memory in as many devices as possible. CERDIPs
> are too expensive, and take too long to erase.
> Fix the evil code protect fuse bug (or is it a _feature_??). I wonder
> how many PICs have been needlessly trashed through the accidental
> setting of the code protect fuse?
> More counter/timers and more than one programmable prescaler in the
> small devices. I always seem to run out of them!
> 14 bit 8 pin devices. I thought I had seen the last of TRIS
> instructions
> ;)
>
> What other ideas do you have?
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