At 12:39 AM 2/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
>> How does the PIC get a clock source when the 'F' series chips don't have
>> an internal clock?
>
>Since I don't know much about PICs yet, I don't know if I'm wrong or not but
>if we're talking about the same thing, running the F series with a
>crystal/resonator vs without, I've gotten them to run with nothing at all on
>the osc pins.

To date, only the 16F627 & '628 in the flash range come with an internal
R/C oscillator. If you have any other F parts working without an oscillator
then it is only noise or perhaps there is 666 marked on the chip somewhere.
;-)



Regards,

Jim Robertson
NEWFOUND ELECTRONICS
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