Hi,

PICs are static devices,which means that they can run at an arbitrarily low
clock speed. In fact, you can even shut them down by just holding the clock
low or high for a long period of time. They will advance to the next
pipeline cycle as soon as you feed the next clock edge.

As for using specific crystals, I don't think you will have a problem. As
long as the crystal works with one PIC, within specs, it should work with any.

Sean


At 03:34 PM 7/21/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Likewise, has anyone seen any problems with running a PIC16F84 10Mhz at
>4Mhz (or even 6Mhz)? I know that you can sometimes overclock them, but I
>remember someone had some trouble with certain Values of crystals...
>
>

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