PWRT = the Power-up Timer , which provides a fixed delay of 72 ms (nominal) on power-up only. This design keeps the device in reset while the power supply stabilizes. from the datasheet :) John ----- Original Message ----- From: Lorick To: Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 10:45 PM Subject: Somewhat of an MPlab question > What does PWRT represent? I don't recognize the acronym but I became > familiar with it when I updated to the latest MPLab and I kept getting a > message that PWRT conflicts with config bits for BOD. > This happened whenever I tried to write to a 16F876 so I deduced that BOD > was brown out detect and I was able to write once I turned off BOD, > otherwise I tried flashing the chip with a program that had a PWRT mention > in the config line I think, and BOD was allowed to stay on. > > So what does all that mean?