At 08:51 PM 13/09/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Follow-up on my previous posting
>

>The newer i bought from Farnell last week.  
>Still 9 months old!
>Probably they are not selling as much as expected?
>No wonder as they do not supportet as we would expect...
>The data sheet is still preliminary after about 2 years (!)
>and the errata sheet explains other bugs, but not this one.
>I wonder are there more undocumented bugs?
>Will the other bugs be fixed?
>Will they withdraw this product?!
>Or why do they not finish it and it«s documentation?
>This is so far the only Mchip part i have ever used and I feel it might be
>the last one.
>


Morgan,
This is like buying a first run off the production line car, yes there are
problems. In this reguard I think that every manufacture has some sort of
trouble with getting the device correct until after a large production run.
As for the data sheet still being preliminary, well I can think of other
semiconductor companies that are the same boat. Nominally the data sheet
will not go to final until after the devices have been characterised for
some period.

To look at it in the other light, you should have known the risks when you
first selected the part (Preliminary data), currently you have only found
one problem, I don't think that this should give cause to dump the product.
So have you informed Microchip of the problem and solution i.e Have you
raised a corrective action? And requested a response report? I think that
you will find that the company (Like all others) will take your information
on board, digest the results, and be very favorable with you.

The information that you have gained is from Farnell, Have you looked at
Microchip? And asked them the question? There may be the chance that this is
a known problem, just that your supplier didn't have the current information.

Dennis