On Thu, 25 Nov 1999 10:12:26 -0500, you wrote:

Errrh, methinks these chips have been specially slowed down so as not to
compete with military specs.  So if experimenting I shall keep my
windows shut lest any EXO-set missiles fly in..

Peter


>Hey Peter, make sure this chip was not *specially* prepared with Mark's
>explosives to detonate when you apply 16.0001 Mhz...
>Check at the bottom if there is a "M" letter (from "Mark") ... hehe


>Peter Forde wrote:
>>
>>   As a matter of curiosity, how fast can you overclock a PIC with
>> injecting an external clock signal?
>>
>>   I'm experimenting with PIC16F877-04/P, and been injecting into CLKIN
>> from an EXO 16MHz clock generator.  Usually use the 4 MHz divided output
>> from this but sometimes I select the 16 MHz output, when the PIC still
>> seems to work perfectly well.  Doesn't get warm or anything.
>