David Sorlien <davewave@MINN.NET> wrote:
>The PIC instruction word does not fill up an entire 16-bit word. MPASM
>fills these extra (unimplemented)  bits with '0' when creating a HEX
>file. Unfortunately, Future's chip programming center has equipment that
>fills these extra bits with a '1' value when reading the contents of a
>PIC.

Hi Dave,

Force the unused portion of memory with an acceptable pattern.
Add a line in your program after the end of the program such as:


For 12 bit devices:
   fill    h'0fff', maxrom - $ + 1

For 14 bit devices:
   fill    h'3fff', maxrom - $ + 1

With a fill line, it won't matter how the programmer initializes
its buffer.

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Bob Fehrenbach    Wauwatosa, WI     bfehrenb@execpc.com