I prototype on 16F84 and move the final to OTP 12C509A's.

I've been building a checklist for moving code from PIC 16F84 to PIC
12C509A and would appreciate other's comments.  What have I missed from
the list?  Some of them are obvious; don't use 16F84 features.  But it's
the strange ones that are likely to be missed.

I would expect most processor specific code would be placed in IFDEF
sections,
testing for the processor symbols __12C509A or __16F84.

The checklist;

- include P12C509A.INC instead of P16F84.INC,
- check __CONFIG flags,
        - use of MCLRE,
        - no use of PWRTE,
        - valid oscillator configuration,
- check code for no use of instructions SUBLW, ADDLW, nor RETFIE,
- check code for no use of register addresses PORTA, PORTB, EEDATA,
EEADR, PCLATH, INTCON, EECON1, nor EECON2,
- check code for no use of STATUS bits IRP, RP1, nor RP0,
- check code for OPTION register,
        - no use of OPTION_REG,
        - use of OPTION instruction,
        - no use of OPTION_REG bits RBPU nor INTEDG,
- check register file addresses used do not exceed limits (valid range
is 0x07 to 0x1f and 0x30 to 0x3f, addresses below 0x0c are in use on
16F84 anyway, so this is the first common free address),
- check code for TRIS register,
        - no use of TRISA nor TRISB,
        - use of TRIS,
- if using _IntRC_OSC,
        - clock may drift, check any external timing assumptions,
        - check first instruction is MOVWF OSCCAL,
        - check 0x3ff is not to be programmed (contains MOVLW for OSCCAL),
- if not using _MCLRE_OFF,
        - check GP3 is not used,

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James Cameron                              (james.cameron@digital.com)
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